The Heights. Parker Bilal

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      Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. He is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane and Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands.

      @Parker_Bilal | jamalmahjoub.com

      Also by Parker Bilal

      Crane and Drake series

       The Divinities

      Makana Investigations series

       The Golden Scales

       Dogstar Rising

       The Ghost Runner

       The Burning Gates

       City of Jackals

       Dark Water

      Writing as Jamal Mahjoub

       Navigation of a Rainmaker

       Wings of Dust

       In the Hour of Signs

       The Carrier

       Travelling with Djinns

       The Drift Latitudes

       Nubian Indigo

      (non-fiction)

       A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory

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      The paperback edition published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada by Black Thorn,

      an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Severn House Publishers Ltd,

      Eardley House, 4 Uxbridge Street, London W8 7SY

      Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West and in Canada by Publishers Group Canada

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      This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Jamal Mahjoub, 2019

      The right of Jamal Mahjoub to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is purely coincidental.

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 83885 080 7

      eISBN 978 1 83885 081 4

      A barrier will divide them,

      And on the Heights there will be men who recognise each one by his look.

      To those in Paradise they shall say:

      ‘Peace be upon you.’

      But they shall not enter.

      And when they turn their eyes towards the inmates of the Fire they will cry:

      ‘Lord do not cast us among those wicked people!’

      – Al Quran, 7:46: The Heights

      Apart from Heaven’s Eternity,

      And yet so far from Hell!

      – Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Al Aaraaf’ (‘The Heights’)

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