num_pages: 448
description: A sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle Fatherland and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.The best what-if thriller for a long long time -- makes you think makes you sweat and makes you choose between what is and what might have been. --Lee ChildIstanbul 1683: Mehmed IV sultan of the Ottoman Empire is preparing to lay siege to Vienna capital of the Holy Roman Empire when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous world-changing message.Paris 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years ever since its fall--along with all of Europe--to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender. And Kamal Arslan Agha a feted officer in the sultan's secret police is starting to question his orders.Rumors of an impending war with the Christian Republic of America attacks by violent extremists and economic collapse have heightened surveillance and arrests across the empire. Tasked with surveying potential threats Kamal has a heavy caseload--and conscience.When a mysterious stranger--naked covered in strange tattoos--appears on the banks of the Seine Kamal is called in to investigate. But what he discovers is a secret buried in the empire's past a secret the Sultan will do anything to silence.With the mysterious Z Protectorate one step behind Kamal together with Nisreen--a fierce human rights lawyer--is caught up in a race across the empire and time itself--a race that could change their world or destroy it.
language: English
title: Empire of Lies
publisher: Forge Books