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The main character of this book, which the author calls the nail that holds the whole quartet together, is British diplomat David Mountolive. He joins the series with a love story, and we read about the waves in his soul and the wanderings in his mind. Afterwards, we travel with him to Alexandria, where he was appointed as ambassador, and dive into complex political relations. We are listening to what they say about the relatively minor conflicts, power relations, political and religious conspiracies that preceded the great rifts of the Middle East on an Egyptian scale.
This was a book that I liked less than the first two. Because it explores the human soul less, includes less city descriptions, and of course, politics is the focus of the book. But despite all my grumpiness, he found a way to educate himself.
A friend of mine said that this series looks like a kaleidoscope. Might be the best analogy I've ever heard. Complementary to this are the words he made Justine say in the first book: “If I were a writer, I would aim for a multi-dimensional view in my characters, a view that can be called prismatic. "It's like, why can't a person post more than one picture at a time?"
It constantly makes us look from a different perspective, we find ourselves looking at different colors and different forms of both people and events. This series is worth reading just to realize what a great job this is.
Justine 
Balthazar was written from Darley's perspective and voice, whose name we learned later; Mountolive is written from the perspective of the ambassador with the same name as the title of the book. It is a very important threshold to look at events from a different perspective and objectively. Similar to what the author said, the third
