Publication

2020 - Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780812995480
  • ISBN-100812995481
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019019018
  • OCLC Control Number1100427629
  • Better World Books9780812995480
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3616.H45K56 2019
  • LCCPS3616.H45 K56 2020

Description

"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

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The king at the edge of the world : a novelHardcoverRandom House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC2020-01-01

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