Name of the Beast

Easterman has painted an overwhelmingly dark vision of an Egypt literally demolished by a fundamentalist Islamic revolution, a country not only terrorized by religious police - the mutahsibin - but ravaged by the plague and hemmed in by a 50-foot-high wall created with material supplied by the tearing down of the pyramids and other ancient monuments. It is a truly horrifying image, vividly portrayed.

A chilling portrayal of religious fanaticism run amuck. It seemed all too real, at times generating a palpable sense of discomfort and fear.

Quite a disappointment. I had big hopes of this book.