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Cairo
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Melbourne, Victoria. Great story loosely based on an actual art heist

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Andrea
May 01, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
On one side of the large, busy road were the Carlton Gardens with their tennis courts and stately avenues of elm trees. On the other side, almost hidden behind a hedge and an overgrown peppercorn tree, was the apartment block with its name spelled out in white metal lettering affixed to one of its red-brick walls: Cairo.


This is our introduction to the Fitzroy apartment block where 17yo country boy, Tom Button, comes to live in the summer of 1986. There he meets a large cast of eclectic character
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