The tournament / Matthew Reilly.
A gripping historical thriller featuring a young Queen Elizabeth I thrust into a web of treachery, power, and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442391291
- ISBN: 1442391294
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from sell sheet. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Katie Firth. |
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Subject: | Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 > Fiction. Chess > Tournaments > Fiction. Turkey > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Thrillers (Fiction) Historical fiction. |
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- 0 of 0 copies available at Scenic Regional.
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The Tournament
"A complete success...action fans and PBS types can share their enthusiasm" ( Booklist, starred review) when a young Queen Elizabeth I is thrust into a gripping game of deception and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire in this edge-of-your-seat historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Zoo of China and Temple . The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send your finest player to compete in a chess tournament to determine the champion of the known world. Thousands converge on Constantinople, including the English court's champion and his guide, the esteemed scholar Roger Ascham. Seeing a chance to enlighten the mind of a student, Ascham brings along Elizabeth Tudor, a brilliant young woman not yet consumed by royal duties in Henry VIII's court. Yet on the opening night of the tournament, a powerful guest of the Sultan is murdered. Soon, barbaric deaths, diplomatic corruption, and unimaginable depravity--sexual and otherwise--unfold before Elizabeth's and Ascham's eyes. The pair soon realizes that the real chess game is being played within the court itself...and its most treacherous element is that a stranger in a strange land is only as safe as her host is gracious.