Can you guess the author/title of this vintage paperback just from the back cover copy? Leave your guesses in the comments section.As a bonus hint, here are the first two sentences of the novel... which are just fucking fantastic:
It was almost noon when the guard came in with his jangle of keys. I was sitting on the dirt floor of a vermin-haunted cell telling off-color stories to an Arab arsonist and a Copt dragoman who had attempted to rape an American schoolteacher inside Cheops' pyramid.
