City Of VeilsThe one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband vanishes without trace. The Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the City of Veils. A city of narrow streets and closed shutters, where nothing is what it seems; and the Empty Quarter one of the most beautiful, yet unforgiving deserts on earth. The Miriam Walker, alone in an alien culture, desperate