The Rage of the Vulture (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by By Unsworth, Barry
Category: Fiction , Historical

It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is  crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in  Constantinople, is newly posted to the British  legation with his imperious wife and overly  curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to  make itself known as he forgets familial and  patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved  with an Armenian woman. On the evening of their  engagement, the Armenian massacres erupted.  Saved by his British citizenship, he witnessed  the brutal rape and murder of his fiancee. Amid  the breakdown of the Turkish empire, he now  seeks revenge.