attacks both across the border into Israel and on Egyptian targets.

Tribesmen have frequently held tourists to demand the release of their relatives held on criminal charges.



In August last year, 16 Egyptian border guards were killed in an attack blamed on fighters who then hijacked an armoured

vehicle that they smashed across the border into Israel, where they were killed by Israeli forces.



Earlier this month, gunmen shot a man dead who was selling alcohol in Sinai. Last month, fighters fired two rockets from Sinai into Israel.style of James. This is true in a certain obvious sense: the handling of periodic sentences, certain turns of phrase, the type of scene evoked, all might be called Jamesian traits—not traits unique to him, of course, but traits that have so to speak been appropriated to him as personal hallmarks by his standing as a canonical author. These traits would ordinarily be supposed to add up to a characteristic tone, the "voice" of James as an author. Style, as the old saying goes, is the man. But here, too, there is a problem.

The voice is not the simple product of a collection of traits, nor is it something we infer from the presence or absence of such traits. The voice is something we "hear" (that is, imagine