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Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission--inly to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And the
SUMMARY: Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission--inly to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing
### From Publishers Weekly Goodwin, the author of a well-received history of the Ottoman Empire, _Lords of the Horizons_ (1999), makes a welcome shift to fiction with this impressive first of a new mystery series set in the empire's declining decades. In 1836, though the corrupt elite troops known
Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map.Yashim is a eunuch.As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his emp
**Be on the lookout for Investigator Yashim's next adventure, AN EVIL EYE, on sale March 29th!** When Jason Goodwin explored the Ottoman Empire in _Lords of the Horizons_ , _The New York Times Book Review_ hailed it as "a work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship.
For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer, and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human - but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected