On a warm night in December 1977,David Holden, chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, landedin Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel, an epochalmoment in global politics. Shortly after dawn, his body was found dumped on adusty roadside. He had been shot with a single bullet through the heart. Who killed Holden and why? Thesewere the questions pursued for a year by the newspaper's Insight team, overseenby legendary editor Harold Evans. Before he died in 2020, Evans said that theirfailure to solve the case was the biggest regret of his long career. Now, a member of the originalInsight team has joined forces with a young investigative journalist fromtoday's Sunday Times to resume the quest. Their search leads them into aworld of intrigue and betrayal, exposing the fatal crossovers betweenjournalism and spying. Meticulously researched andgrippingly told, Murder in Cairo reveals the truth of one of the mostenigmatic cold case mysteries of the past fifty years.WITH A FOREWORD BY TINA BROWN
