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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bPHI/KI
100			_aPhillips,Arthur
245			_aKING,AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD : Novel
250			_a1
260			_aNew York _bRandom House _c2020/01/01
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500			_aQueen Elizabeth’s spymasters recruit an unlikely agent—the only Muslim in England—for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from “one of the best writers in America” (The Washington Post) The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her 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 occurs. 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 to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family’s Catholicism, then 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.
650			_aFiction
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aTurkey
650			_aJames I, King of England, 1566-1625
650			_aMuslims
650			_aReligion
650			_aTurks
650			_aDiplomats
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