The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips

His imaginatively peripatetic books have varied widely, but they share an underlying concern with authenticity, self-delusion and dissembling. 37.Beginning with “Prague,” his clever 2002 debut set among a new Lost Generation of young expats in postcommunist Budapest, Arthur Phillips has tickled and tested readers with one brainy, playful novel after another. 9780812985504 The King at the Edge of the World 37.3000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/contemporary Queen 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)Īrthur Phillips returns with a unique and thrilling novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son.Īrthur Phillips returns with a unique and thrilling novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island.

Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent.

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. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question- What does James truly believe? 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. The queen's spymasters-hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism-fear that James is not what he appears.

The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. It is a capital crime even tothinkthat Elizabeth will ever die. Queen 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) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST 'Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carre and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.'-The Wall Street Journal

The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips