The Middle East in Crime Fiction:

adventure American Arab Arab terrorists Arabia assassination avenger Baghdad become bedouin Beirut Black September bomb British agent Buchan's Cairo Chinese Christian Collins Colonel Communists conspiracy crime fiction culture Death desert detective Doubleday drug Durrell Egypt Egyptian European French Fu Manchu Garden City genre German girl Gulf gunrunning Hale hero hijacking Hodder Hutchinson intelligence involved Iran Iranian Iraq Islam Israel Israeli Israeli agent Istanbul James Bond Jerusalem Jewish Jews jihad Jimgrim John kidnap kill Lebanon Levantine Libyan London Mahdi Michael Middle East Middle Eastern mission MOSSAD murder Muslim mystery nationalist Nazis Nick Carter North Africa novels and thrillers nuclear operations Palestine Palestinian Palestinian terrorist plane plot political popular pseud reader religious fanatics Russian Saladin Saudi scientist secret shah sheikh sheikhdom smuggling Soviet spies spy novels story Syria Tangier terrorism threat thrillers thwart Turkey Turkish U.S. title villains West Western William Morrow York