Author: Jenny White
Year: 2010
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Mystery, Fiction, Historical fiction
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9780393070170
0393070174 |
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A bank robbery and illegal weapons lead Kamil Pasha to uncover a plan to massacre an entire valley.
December 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. When the police discover a shipload of guns and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up, suspicion falls on a socialist commune Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is called in to investigate. He soon encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: Vahid, head of a special branch of the secret police, who has convinced the sultan that the commune is leading a secessionist movement and should be destroyed--along with surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened.
Exploring the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, The Winter Thief also reflects the mad idealism of those turbulent times. .
This book is part of the "Kamil Pasha" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Abyssinian Proof"
First published in 2007
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 | "The Sultan's Seal"
First published in 2006
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