The Janissary Tree



UK Edition Buy on Amazon	The Snake Stone Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim, the resourceful hero of The Janissary Tree, 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. The Snake Stone hurls Yashim into a race to discover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the streets of Istanbul, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.	US Edition Buy on Barnes and Noble
Reviews
‘The second in a thrilling and entertaining series, Goodwin scored another winner.’ The Herald

‘It's a pleasure to meet again the infinitely civilised and intelligent Yashim ... The vivid portrait of the lost world of the Ottoman Empire seem to carry with it the faint whiff of the mysterious East ... a rich mixture adding up to an excellent and enjoyable crime novel.’ Literary Review

‘Yashim's second outing, and it easily lives up to the promise of Goodwin's earlier novel, The Janissary Tree ... Goodwin's knowledge of Istanbul is extraordinary ... makes a perfect summer read.’ The Sunday Times

'Jason Goodwin is a man of many talents. A scholar of Byzantine history, he won the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize for his account of a walking journey to Istanbul, On Foot to the Golden Horn. He followed this up with a well-received history of the Ottoman Empire, Lords of the Horizons. In 2006, he published his first work of fiction, The Janissary Tree, for which he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America to the year’s best crime novel.' More>> Angel Gurria-Quintana, FT Books