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.
Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback?.
For 400 years, they were the empire\'s elite soldiers, but they grew too powerful, and ten years ago, the Sultan had them crushed.
And he introduces us to the Janissaries.
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.
You see, Yashim is a eunuch.
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.
But just before the Sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court.
Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit.
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
