Title: The king at the edge of the world
Subtitle: a novel
Description: "Queen Elizabeth's spymasters recruit an unlikely agent--the only Muslim in England--for an impossible mission." --

1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying. With no heir for the kingdom, potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen's spymasters fear that James' claim to be a Protestant are untrue. If he secretly shares his family's Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. It falls to Geoffrey Belloc to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James's soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent.  -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Turkey, fiction, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Turks, Fiction, Religion, Muslims, Diplomats, History, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Biographical