Alexis R Kane

The Cairo Interval

A man she thought was dead resurfaces with a warning: someone is quietly rebuilding the architecture of silence that once buried an entire village's history — and this time, it spans continents. Zara Carell and Declan Farr follow the thread through Cairo's back streets, Malta's shell companies, and Vienna's careful lawyers, uncovering a network patient enough to survive decades without ever holding still. But the deeper they dig, the clearer one truth becomes: they are not the hunters here. They never were. "The Cairo Interval" is the gripping second instalment in the Zara Carell series — a slow-burn thriller about buried histories, dangerous patience, and the price of looking back. Some debts don't stay buried. Some silences cost more than the truth ever could. Zara Carell built a quiet life in Lisbon, deliberately far from the courier work and buried secrets of her past. That quiet ends the moment Aleksandar Brik calls — a ghost from a world she left behind, offering information that could unravel a network she didn't know still existed. Alongside Declan Farr, still carrying the weight of a mission that cost him two men, Zara follows the thread from a frightened father's confession to a legal fixer's fear, a lawyer's careful silence, and finally to a gathering of powerful strangers in a Slovakian forest — where she learns, with cold clarity, that she has already been found by the very man she's hunting. The Cairo Interval is a story about the cost of looking back, the weight of protecting people who can't protect themselves, and the particular danger of being patient with someone far more patient than you.