The Tournament簡介，目錄書摘
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The Tournament
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內(nèi)容簡介:“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.
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.
作者簡介:Matthew Reilly is the
New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of numerous novels, including
The Great Zoo of China, The Five Greatest Warriors, The Six Sacred Stones, Seven Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow, the children’s book
Hover Car Racer, and the novella,
Hell Island. His books have been published in more than twenty languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. Visit him at www.MatthewReilly.com and at www.Facebook.com/OfficialMatthewReilly.,
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