Looking for the Mahdi

by N. Lee Wood

Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood was a finalist or poll selection for the 1997 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Former war correspondent Kay Bee Sulaiman reluctantly returns to a repressive Middle Eastern state, posing as a man while escorting an android intended as a ruler's bodyguard. What seems a delivery assignment entangles her and her artificial companion in intelligence operations, conflicting loyalties, and political unrest.

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