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Buch 1 von 5: Investigator Yashim

Goodwin, Jason

 
9780312426132: The Janissary Tree (Investigator Yashim)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312426135 ISBN 13: 9780312426132
Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2007

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WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

This first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue, introduces Investigator Yashim: In 1830s Istanbul, an extra-ordinary hero tackles an extraordinary plot that threatens to topple the Ottoman Empire.

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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Verlag
St. Martins Press-3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312426135
ISBN 13 
9780312426132
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
332
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