MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Farrar Straus and Giroux.
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The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
A Yashim Togalu Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
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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