One character in this novel abandons a dance party when the smell of cordite leads him to discover the death of Sam Hardy.  
One character in this novel abandons a dance party when the smell of cordite leads him to discover the death of Sam Hardy.  Another character in this novel's use of the names Cicero, Zerzura, and Delilah leads him to believe that yet another character aided a German named Eppler.  That character in this novel uses the word Bosphorus to refer to the cleft in Katherine Clifton's throat and, after discovering her dead in Swimmer's Cave, gets into a plane that goes up in flames.  That title character of this novel eventually ends up in an abandoned Italian villa where he is cared for by the Canadian nurse Hana.  The thief Caravaggio seeks to reveal that Almasy is not actually the title nationality in, for 10 points, what 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje?
One character in this novel abandons a dance party when the smell of cordite leads him to discover the death of Sam Hardy.  
The {English Patient}