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The Map of Broken Promises: A Murder Mystery of the Arab Revolt
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the scorching desert of 1916, a murdered British officer. A Bedouin tracker who reads sand like scripture. And a conspiracy that could shatter an empire's most carefully guarded lie.
When vultures circle the western oasis, Tariq al-Rashid discovers what they've found: Captain Edmund Hargrove, throat cut in the night, his ceremonial dagger still sheathed at his belt. The boot prints in the sand tell a story the British don't want read. The planted evidence points toward tribal revenge. But Tariq sees what others miss-this murder was calculated, professional, and tied to secrets worth killing to protect.
As the Arab Revolt rages against Ottoman rule, Hargrove had uncovered proof of a betrayal that threatens everything: a secret British-French agreement to partition the Middle East, carving up Arab lands while promising independence. Someone murdered him to bury that truth. Now Tariq must track a killer who moves like smoke through an alliance built on lies, where British officers and Bedouin fighters eye each other with barely concealed suspicion.
Each clue he uncovers-a jambiya planted in a sheikh's tent, coded maps showing territorial grids, a French intelligence officer embedded in British command-pulls him deeper into a web of imperial deception. The killer is hunting him now, desperate to silence the one man who can expose how far empires will go to protect their strategic interests. And the desert storm erasing evidence is just the beginning of forces trying to bury uncomfortable truths.
Tariq must choose: honor a dead man's principles and risk becoming the next casualty, or survive by accepting that in war between empires, individual conscience is just another victim waiting to happen.
For readers who crave historical mysteries where tracking boot prints through sand leads to geopolitical conspiracy, where Bedouin wisdom confronts British pragmatism, and where the cost of truth is measured in blood spilled on desert stone-The Map of Broken Promises delivers a murder investigation that illuminates how the Middle East's modern borders were drawn in betrayal and sealed with a blade across an idealist's throat.
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Perfect for fans of atmospheric historical mysteries, morally complex detective fiction, and stories where solving the murder is just the beginning of understanding what was really at stake.
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