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Yashim is not a ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not that his best ally is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans some radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is available butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep in to the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people should go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, "The Janissary Tree" is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador's wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan's harem.
