A Cafe on the Nile

3.5 but rounded up this time. Great story but pretty sexist when writing about women or even from the woman's perspective.......more

A Café on the Nile is the second novel in the Anton Rider series. It brings back to the fore many of the characters from The White Rhino Hotel as well as introduces to the reader, a number of new and emerging characters who make this an epic novel. The year is 1935. War looms over the horizon in Eas......more

The second in the Anton Rider tetralogy set more than a decade later during the start of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. A bit slow going in the beginning, the novel starts in Cairo where the dwarf Olivio owns the cafe of the title and the main characters gather. The novel follows a few threads -......more

Early this year I picked up the first book in the "Anton Rider" series to scratch my itch for historical adventure fiction. This next in the series takes place about 15 years later, in 1935. Our hero is now a 35-year-old safari guide in East Africa, estranged from his Welsh wife and their children.......more

This was a splendid read....plenty of historical and geographical detail weaved into the story of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and Anton Rider’s safari adventure. Character development through parallel stories of each personality all came together for an exciting finish. Olivio, Grimmaldi, Harri......more