Fic: Stealth and Sudden Violence (Master Post)
Title: Stealth and Sudden Violence
Rating: Mostly PG, NC-17 for one chapter
Pairing: Steve/Danno
Word count: ~71,000 (yes, I scared myself too)
Spoilers: None, as it's an historical AU set in Egypt in 1914
Warnings: Nothing other than sex between two guys
I am nominated at the Ohana Favorite Awards!! ♥
Summary: Europe is at war and the main powers in World War 1 are vying for control of the Middle East, especially Egypt. Cairo is awash with British troops, intelligence officers, enemy spies and native Egyptian revolutionaries. Against this backdrop, Steve’s father, an investigator for the American Ambassador to Egypt, is murdered. Steve arrives in Cairo, the place where he spent half his childhood, with his friends, Chin and Kono, to find little progress has been made on the case. Can he solve his father’s murder and foil a Turkish plot to arm the tribes in the Sahara? Will he manage to keep his cool around the detective assigned to the case, one Daniel Williams, late of New Jersey, and unhappily transplanted to Cairo? Will Danny have to shoot his new partner in the face just to keep his own sanity or will he find Egypt?
Notes: Written for five0bang. Thank you to my marvellous mixer stephaniejane2 and my amazing artist cookiemonsta, who were both as much cheering section as they were music and art maestros. And this story would have been nothing without the brilliant beta skills of jaguarcaine
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Also on AO3
Accompanying art work done by cookiemonsta is here and is really rather splendid.
Story notes: This is a crossover, albeit very slight, with Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody series, specifically Thunder in the Sky. They’re excellent books, funny and clever, but you don't have to know them to follow this story. A few of the books' characters appear in one scene of this story and are mentioned in others. The Cairo of the Elizabeth Peters novels is historically accurate, but the residents have been exposed over long years to the exploits of Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family. This means they react in the books, and in this story, with somewhat less horror than might be expected when faced with women doing things polite society thinks they shouldn't. The Emmersons have also had a friendly, to the point having a niece married to an Egyptian native, attitude to Egyptians. This means that the British society is somewhat used to seeing respected, if eccentric, members of its ranks spending time with non-whites. They might disapprove, but it's not something they've never seen before.
The title comes from a quote by former UN Secretary General Butros Butros-Ghali “The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.”
Accompanying music mix by stephaniejane2
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