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Michael Howell runs his family's business in Syria, where his factories make everything from batteries to buses. When he discovers that a Palestinian guerrilla leader, Salah Ghaled, has secretly been using one of them to make weapons, Ghaled forces him to keep working for the cause, and Howell has to find a way out that will not cost him his life.

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CWA Gold Dagger (Winners)
The Gold Dagger is awarded each year by the Crime Writers’ Association for the best crime novel of the year, and is the most prestigious prize in British crime writing. First given in 1955, as the Crossed Red Herring Award, it has gone to spy novels and police procedurals, psychological thrillers and historical mysteries alike - from John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves and Mick Herron. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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