Publisher's Synopsis
It is 1838. Maximilien Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. The resourceful Yashim, who was once a eunuch in the court of Sultan Mahmut II, is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Yashim finds himself in a race against time to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.
