Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 6:00pm
From the Edgar Award–winning author of The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, and The Bellini Card
comes the fourth adventure of the famous investigator Yashim. When the
admiral of the Ottoman fleet defects to the Egyptians, Yashim attempts
to uncover the man’s motives. But Fevzi Pasha is no stranger to Yashim:
it was Pasha, in fact, who taught the investigator his craft years ago.
He is the only man whom Yashim has ever truly feared: ruthless, cruel,
and unswervingly loyal to the sultan. What dark secret has led his
former mentor to betray the Ottoman Empire? While unraveling Pasha’s
curious history, Yashim is drawn ever deeper into the closed world of
the sultan’s seraglio, an intimate household populated by the young
ruler’s women, children, slaves, and eunuchs. It is a well-appointed
world dominated by fear, ambition, and deep-seated superstitions—a lap
of luxury where talented girls hold sway in the ladies’ orchestra. But
as the women of that orchestra inexplicably grow ill and die, Yashim
discovers that his investigations into the admiral’s defection have
their roots in the torturous strictures of the sultan’s harem, where
every secret is sacred: a place where the normal rules are suspended and
where women can simply disappear.
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