Empire of Lies

Empire of Lies is a sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland, and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.

Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroomamp;mdash;naked, covered in strange tattoosamp;mdash;to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message.

Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fallamp;mdash;along with all of Europeamp;mdash;to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender. And Kamal Arslan Agha, a feted officer in the sultan's secret police, is starting to question his orders.

Rumors of an impending war with the Christian Republic of America, attacks by violent extremists, and economic collapse have heightened surveillance and arrests across the empire. Tasked with surveying potential threats, Kamal has a heavy caseloadamp;mdash;and conscience.

When a mysterious strangeramp;mdash;naked, covered in strange tattoosamp;mdash;appears on the banks of the Seine, Kamal is called in to investigate. But what he discovers is a secret buried in the empire's past, a secret the Sultan will do anything to silence.

With the mysterious Z Protectorate one step behind, Kamal, together with Nisreenamp;mdash;a fierce human rights lawyeramp;mdash;is caught up in a race across the empire and time itselfamp;mdash;a race that could change their world, or destroy it.

Empire of Lies is being published as "The Ottoman Secret" in the UK