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Every morning in the hour before dawn, a silent vessel launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly in to the deepest area of the waters halfway between European countries and Asia, where a man will die.... In the gender reversal of Scheherazade in The Arabian Evenings: Stories from a 1,001 Evenings, Ottoman princess Esma Sultan seduces an alternative Christian lover each night, and then have him drowned in the morning. The Sultaness's true passion burns limited to the Christian-born soldier recharged with carrying out her brutal nightly death phrase: her drowning officer, Ivan Postivich. The Drowning Officer explores the riddle of Esma - who's at once a murderer and a champion and liberator of women - and the person who enjoys her in spite of her horrifying offences. This textured historical novel, set in the opulence and squalor of Istanbul in 1826, is woven with the difficulty and implications of love.
