Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

About the Author
Jenny White is the author of the Kamil Pasha series: The Sultan's Sea (a finalist for the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award), The Abyssinian Proof and The Winter Thief. She is a professor of anthropology at Boston University, specializing in Turkey.

Reviews
"Kamil-smart, brave, and compassionate-proves an appealing sleuth.... White clearly knows her period and place." -- Publishers Weekly



Book Information
ISBN 9780393333725
Author Jenny White
Format Paperback
Page Count 412
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 419g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 25mm