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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2007
On Sale: May 16, 2006
302 pages
ISBN: 0374178607
EAN: 9780374178604
Hardcover
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Mystery Historical
It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire
must follow suit. But just before the Sultan announces
sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile
balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one
intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim
Lastname, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this
world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch. He leads us into the palace’s luxurious seraglios and
Istanbul's teeming streets, and leans on the wisdom of a
dyspeptic Polish ambassador, a transsexual dancer, and a
Creole-born queen mother. And he introduces us to the
Janissaries. For 400 years, they were the empire's elite
soldiers, but they grew too powerful, and ten years ago,
the Sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a
brutal comeback?
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