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The Winter Thief
A Kamil Pasha Novel
Author: Jenny White
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Unabridged: 11 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/29/2010
Category: Fiction - Mystery & Detective
Synopsis
January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbuls 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 Artis 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 destroyedalong 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.