Jason Goodwin is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is also the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, among other award-winning nonfiction. He lives with his wife and children in England.
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Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying, and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arrival of a French archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community into confu... SEE MORE