Death In The Middle Watch (2004) - Plot & Excerpts
Driving for several miles across the marshy wasteland and shallow waters that divide the city from the seaside groups of villas, with names that recalled old battles and human sacrifices, he felt there was something sinister about the whole region, something that recalled Salammbo and the cruel and vicious history of Carthage. The flocks of flamingoes glimpsed across the cheerless wasteland only emphasized the impression, and when he came into the pretentious boulevard of Tunis itself and saw the severe-looking Berber countenances, he wanted to return to the ship. But he had some work to do. If his theory was correct, it was here that he would discover the whole ugly truth. He told the taxi driver, a bearded man with a hostile squint. to drop him off at the Café de Paris which he knew to be the principal meeting place of the town, and entering it he realized that a British naval ship was in port for matelots were scattered about the large room. He found an empty table but was soon joined by a couple of his fellow-countrymen.
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