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East Of Suez (Paperback)

by Howard Engel (Author)
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The setting is a fictional country, Murinam, which has the feel and look of a former French colony. Benny Cooperman, still recovering from the head injury that impaired his short-term memory, is persuaded to investigate the death of an old schoolmate, Jake Grange. Grange, a family man, ran a scuba diving business before he was, it seems, murdered; his widow wants Benny to find out what happened and recover important documents. Benny's cognitive difficulties have made his own world alien to him, but, ironically, he's willing to broaden his horizons by travelling to countries where he can't read the signs. Benny is now a true cosmopolitan--equally out of place everywhere. Intrigue and suspense amid the denizens of Murinam make this a memorable case for Benny Cooperman.


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Howard Engel is the creator of the enduring detective Benny Cooperman, who has become an internationally recognized fictional sleuth. Two of Engel's novels have been adapted for TV movies, and his books have been translated into several languages. He lives in Toronto.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Cooperman's Ba-a-ck!, Sep 14 2008
By Judy McMullan (Waterloo, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
I was thrilled to find another Benny Cooperman book out! I'm aware that Howard Engel suffered a particularly debilitating stroke, for an author. However, he seems to have done something remarkable and given us back Benny first in Memory Book and now in East of Suez (not to mention telling his own story in The Man Who Forgot How to Read).
Benny is as wise, humble and insightful as we have come to expect. Yes, he is not at the top of his form but he's still Benny all the way! I very much enjoyed this realistic story with a character who has changed and is coping with that change and still accomplishing his goals. The story focuses on the mystery and the characters, rather than Benny's difficulties but his coping strategies are shown up front, not glossed over.
Apart from the twist of having a main character with memory problems, the story itself gave us Engel's clever observations and down home feel. It was quite a change to see Benny go farther from home than Toronto but Engel managed to work in a Grantham connection. Benny Cooperman is a great character and I hope I haven't seen his last adventure!
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Sleuth Looking to Re-establish His Past, Jul 1 2008
By Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada) - See all my reviews
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Engel writes yet another Benny Cooperman detective novel as a thinly veiled attempt to prove to himself and his loyal readers that he has sufficiently recovered from his stroke of a few years back to be able to still create and direct the life of his alter-ego. In "Memory Book", PI Benny Cooperman receives a nasty blow to his head that results in lost of his ability to read. The setting for this follow-up story takes place in South-east Asia where Benny is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a Canadian businessman and recover a suticase of valuables. All this while testing his own ability to adapt to a new culture and language and overcome his own cognitive problems. There are numerous perplexing moments in this story where Benny has to reach out to others to get them to help him solve the disappearance, recover the diamonds and wrap up the case. While the story is vintage Engel, with lots of intrigue and subversion to entertain the reader, the main attraction for me was to see how Cooperman struggles to reacquaint himself with the language of his past: the word pictures and turns of phrases in his profession. Engel gives the reader an inside look at how Benny (Engel's surrogate) tries to immerse himself in a foreign world without drawing attention to his mission. The problem is that every denizen in Murinam knows why he's there - to upset their quiet little world of decadence, corruption and immorality - and thus work speedily to make sure that Cooperman stays only long enough to take care of business. While Engel does a masterful job on describing the behind-the-scenes of this former French colony - modeled much like old Saigon - the storyline seems to be very rushed and underdeveloped. For the lack of something better, Engel seems to want to satisfy his readers with a lot of filler to take care of the many gaps in the narrative. This is not the Cooperman I've come to appreciate over the years who puts inordinate time into getting it right. Maybe, for that reason, we have seen the last of Cooperman in action.
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