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It's 1906. Definately not England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid 11 is on the verge of imploding. Rival Great Powers, especially Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany, sit watching like crows on the fence, prepared to rush in to carve up the vast territories, menacing England's essential overland routes to her Indian possessions. At his medical practice in London's Marylebone, Watson receives a mystifying telegram. It's from Holmes. "Dear Watson, when you can throw physic to the dogs for a couple of hours I'd appreciate meeting at the stone cross at Charing Cross railway station tomorrow noon. I have an assignation with a birdlover at the Stork & Ostrich House in the Regents Park which includes excited my curiosity. Yrs. S.H." Watson finds the invitation puzzling. Why should such a mundane meeting at a Bird House excite the curiosity of Europe's most famous investigating detective or anyone else? For old times' sake, Watson joins his old comrade-in-arms. Within days, Holmes and Watson end up aboard HMS Dreadnought en path to Stamboul, a city of fabled opulence, high espionage, and low intrigue. Their mission: at all costs, stop a plot that could cause the immediate collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
