The Janissary Tree : [a novel]

Goodwin, Jason 1964- (Author). Hoye, Stephen. (Added Author). hoopla digital. (Added Author). Read by Stephen Hoye. (Cast).

Summary: The Janissary Tree, the first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth.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 Togalu, 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. He finds sweet salvation in the arms of another man's wife (this is not your everyday eunuch). And he introduces us to the Janissaries. For 400 years earlier the sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback?

Record details

ISBN: 1400125049 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
ISBN: 9781400125043 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (660 min.)) : digital.
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Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [United States] : Tantor Audio, 2007.
Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	Digital content provided by hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Stephen Hoye.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.