On a warm night in December 1977, David Holden, chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, landed in Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel, an epochal moment in global politics. Shortly after dawn, his body was found dumped on a dusty roadside. He had been shot with a single bullet through the heart.

Who killed Holden and why? These were the questions pursued for a year by the newspaper's Insight team, overseen by legendary editor Harold Evans. Before he died in 2020, Evans said that their failure to solve the case was the biggest regret of his long career.

Now, a member of the original Insight team has joined forces with a young investigative journalist from today's Sunday Times to resume the quest. Their search leads them into a world of intrigue and betrayal, exposing the fatal crossovers between journalism and spying.

Meticulously researched and grippingly told, Murder in Cairo reveals the truth of one of the most enigmatic cold case mysteries of the past fifty years.

WITH A FOREWORD BY TINA BROWN

"Gripping. Gillman and Midolo's hunt for the truth behind the complicated facade of David Holden's murder reads better than any Cold War spy thriller." Claire Hubbard-Hall, author of Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

"Murder in Cairo illuminates a sinister, colourful, clandestine world." Tina Brown, bestselling author and former editor-in-chief of New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Tatler

Peter Gillman is an author and journalist who first wrote for the Sunday Times in 1965. He spent fifteen years on its staff, five as a member of its Insight investigative team, and he frequently reported from the Middle East. He has written a dozen books, many co-authored with his wife, Leni. Their biography of the Everest pioneer George Mallory, The Wildest Dream, won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2000 and their book Extreme Eiger won the Book of the Year prize from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild in 2016. They live in south London and have two children and four grandchildren.

Emanuele Midolo is an investigative journalist with fifteen years of experience who has written in three languages for publications across the UK, France and Italy. He has won awards for his reporting and has been shortlisted multiple times for the British Journalism Awards, the Media Freedom Awards and the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He has worked at The Times and the Sunday Times since 2020 and lives in London. This is his first book.