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Also by Matthew Reilly:

The Secret Runners, September 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
The Three Secret Cities, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Four Legendary Kingdoms, May 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Tournament, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Great Zoo of China, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Six Sacred Stones, January 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Seven Deadly Wonders, January 2006
Hardcover
Contest, December 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Scarecrow, August 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Area 7, February 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Temple, February 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Ice Station, September 2000
Paperback (reprint)
Seven Deadly Wonders: A Novel, November 0000
Mass Market Paperback

THE TOURNAMENT
By: Matthew Reilly

Gallery Books
August 2015
On Sale: July 21, 2015
Featuring: Roger Ascham; Elizabeth Tudor
320 pages
ISBN: 147674954X
EAN: 9781476749549
Kindle: B00QNW8KOW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Woman Sleuth | Thriller

From the New York Times bestselling author of Temple and The Great Zoo of China comes a gripping historical thriller featuring a young Queen Elizabeth I thrust into a web of treachery, power, and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire.

The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the powerful and feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send your finest player to compete in a chess tournament to determine the champion of the known world.

Thousands converge on Constantinople, including the English court’s champion and his guide, the esteemed scholar Roger Ascham. Seeing a chance to enlighten the mind of a student, Ascham brings along Elizabeth Tudor, a brilliant young woman not yet thrust into royal duties.

Yet on the opening night of the tournament a powerful guest of the Sultan is murdered. Soon, barbaric deaths, diplomatic treachery, and unimaginable depravity—sexual and otherwise—unfold before Elizabeth and Ascham’s eyes. The pair soon realizes that the real chess game is being played within the court itself…and its most treacherous element is that a stranger in a strange land is only as safe as her host is gracious.