One thousand years before the enslaved Israelites made their exodus, the Egyptians performed acts of circusry in their precarious kingdom. Thickmiddled women in their tied off robes and ear rings and striped neck collars bent back, breasts bared to the sky, sundarkened contortionists and balancers in the first days of recorded history. Were they watching what had become of their trade on that night?
Bob Cullen is a former international correspondent for Newsweek and the author of four acclaimed thrillers, including the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Soviet Sources.