The Woman Ayisha

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"The Woman Ayisha" is an adventure novel set in the Middle East. "Consider the situation for a moment first. There were twenty of us—seventeen Arabs, Narayan Singh the Sikh, myself, and Grim. We were in Petra over-Jordan, which was no-man's land until Ali Higg, self-styled Lion of Petra, friend of the Prophet of Islam, Lord of the Limits of the Desert and Lord of the Waters—Ali Higg the Terrible, swooped into it from Arabia and, with the aid of Jael, his European wife, established himself there as a thorn in the flank of Palestine." The self-styled expedition had been quite busy carrying out raids in the area, knowing that neither the colonial nor local governments would interfere with them. Among their latest prizes is the fair woman Ayisha who arouses no little interest in the men…