Appointment in Samarra
by John O'Hara
read: 2019
Time 100 Novels, Modern Library #22
The novel begins with an epigraph, a short story from W. Somerset Maugham from which the title is taken. A servant, seeing Death in a crowd and believing himself marked, borrows his master's horse to ride from Baghdad to Samarra. The master confronts death, who says he only expressed surprise at seeing the servant in Baghdad, for they had an appointment later that day in Samarra. Obviously with an preface like that, someone is going to die.
One thing I couldn't figure out was the plotline with Al Grecco. He was a major character for the first two-thirds or so but his storyline didn't really seem to resolve.
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