The king at the edge of the world a novel
"Queen Elizabeth's spymasters recruit an unlikely agent--the only Muslim in England--for an impossible mission" --
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Queen Elizabeth's spymasters recruit an unlikely agent--the only Muslim in England--for an impossible mission" -- 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying. With no heir for the kingdom, potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen's spymasters fear that James' claim to be a Protestant are untrue. If he secretly shares his family's Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. It falls to Geoffrey Belloc to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James's soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 264 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812995480 0812995481 |
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