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The king at the edge of the world : a novel
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"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 success...
"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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- Creator
- Arthur Phillips
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- Books
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- English
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- First edition
- New York : Random House, [2020]
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- 264 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812995480, 0812995481, 9780812995497, 9780812985504, 0812985508
- OCLC
- on1100427629
- Part one: Mahmoud Ezzedine, 1591 -- Part two: Geoffrey Belloc, 1601 -- Part three: Matthew Thatcher and David Leveret, 1601 -- Part four: Matthew Thatcher and James Stuart, 1602 -- Epilogue: Mahmoud Ezzedine and God
Subjects
- Turks -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- James I, King of England, 1566-1625 -- Religion -- Fiction.
- Muslims -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Diplomats -- Fiction.
- James I, King of England, 1566-1625 -- Fiction.
- Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Fiction.
- Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction.