The high city
By: Cecelia Holland.
Edition: 1st hardcover ed.
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780765305596
Subjects: Basil -- II, -- Emperor of the East, -- ca. 958-1025 -- Fiction; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The early years of the reign of Basil II were racked by civil war and his wife's murderous intrigue. When the young son of an Irish slave catches the eye of the Emperor's wife, jealousy and anger come near to bringing down the High City itself.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates Book."