02444nam a22003015i 4500 26906 26878 EG-ScBUE 20210201133605.0 181029s2017 enk g 000 f eng d 9781911475125 EG-ScBUE eng rda EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE 823.92 CRO 22 Croxford, Leslie 1944- author. 41842 Deep Sahara / Leslie Croxford. [London] : Momentum Publishing Company, 2017. 275 pages ; 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Recovering from a nervous breakdown preceded by the death of his wife, Klaus Werner travels to the Algerian Sahara to research a book on desert insects. He is billeted in a local monastery, but upon arrival he finds it empty of its inhabitants.He soon discovers that it is a recent crime scene, the monks having been slaughtered as they went about their daily routine. Local fundamentalists are suspected, although there are whispers that agents of the state are responsible. Urged by the police to leave the site, Klaus - exhausted, numb - finds himself electing to stay. Atrocious as the killings are, they have no connection with him. He simply wishes to get on with his work and confront his isolation in the desert. Yet he is soon joined by other visitors: travelling hermits, a young American palaeontologist, a sinister German scientist. He discovers that there are disturbing links between them and his own life. Moreover, each of them seems to be hiding something. Even the insects he has been sent to study, all mysteriously deformed, appear to embody an awful reality. Klaus, writing his memoirs in Rome and in the public eye, tells his story in flashbacks. Increasingly, he is forced to determine the authenticity of his intense personal quest in the deep Sahara. Klaus Werner travels to the Algerian Sahara to research a book on desert insects. He is billeted in a local monastery, but upon arrival he finds it empty of its inhabitants.He soon discovers that it is a recent crime scene. Monks Crimes against Fiction. BUEsh Scientists Fiction. BUEsh 24965 Interpersonal relations Fiction. BUEsh 28498 Sahara Fiction. BUEsh GGEN HHUUEENN October2018 Reading book 34232 ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2018-10-29 Purchase 260.00 823.92 CRO 000043683 2025-07-15 00:00:00 NB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2018-10-29 Purchase 260.00 823.92 CRO 000043684 2025-07-15 00:00:00 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2018-10-29 Purchase 260.00 1 1 823.92 CRO 000043685 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2019-01-08 BB