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THE KING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
A unique and thrilling literary novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn Pegged as "one of the best writers in America" (The Washington Post), Arthur Phillips delivers a mesmerizing new work in which Queen Elizabeth's spymasters recruit an unlikely agent for an impossible mission: the only Muslim in England.
The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth is dying, childless. The nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable arrives. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem.
The queen's spymasters--hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism--fear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim he is a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family's Catholicism, then the last forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe?
It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of England's religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James's soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son.
Arthur Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR, THE SONG IS YOU, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best novels of the year by The Washington Post; ANGELICA, which was adapted for film; THE EGYPTOLOGIST; and PRAGUE, which was also a New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in New York.
The queen's spymasters--hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism--fear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim he is a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family's Catholicism, then the last forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe?
It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of England's religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James's soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son.
Arthur Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR, THE SONG IS YOU, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best novels of the year by The Washington Post; ANGELICA, which was adapted for film; THE EGYPTOLOGIST; and PRAGUE, which was also a New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in New York.
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Published 2020-02-11 by Random House |