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From the award-winning author of the Mamur Zapt series

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Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his fascination for language began. He later trained as a Russian interpreter but moved away from languages to follow an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas, and then as an administrator. He has a strong interest in human rights and in languages, both of which feature indirectly in his new series. Michael Pearce now lives in South-West London.

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Swimming in troubled waters . . .

The Second Secretary of the embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances. While attempting to swim the Dardanelles Straits, Cunningham has ended up with a bullet in his head.

The suspicious circumstances of his death have to be investigated so the Foreign Office sends
out an officer of the Special Branch: Seymour. Istanbul is an interesting place in 1911. It is famously the place where East meets West, a matter of some significance as the old Ottoman Empire crumbles and, in the run-up to possible war, the Great Powers circle for the kill. Very soon Seymour comes to suspect that Cunningham may have been swimming in deeper waters than the Dardanelles.

As Seymour tries to untangle the threads of the case it leads him all around this exotic city, from the little coffee shops of the Avenue of Slippers, to the heart of the Topkapi Palace itself.

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