From the New York Timesbestselling standardbearer for alternate history A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (USA Today). In another, very different timelineone in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to bethe Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own. Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Argyros has decided to dedicate his life to Byzantium. A stalwart soldier and able secret agent, Basil serves his emperor courageously, going undercover to unearth Persias dastardly plots and disrupting the dark machinations of his beautiful archenemy, the Persian spy Mirrane, while defusing dire threats emerging from the Western realm of the FrancoSaxons. But the world Basil so staunchly defends is changing rapidly, and he must remain ever vigilant, for in this great game of empires, the player who controls the most advanced tools and weaponrytools like gunpowder, printing, vaccines, and telescopesmust certainly emerge victorious. A collection of interlocking stories that showcase the courage, ingenuity, and breathtaking derringdo of superspy Basil Argyros,Agent of Byzantiumpresents the great Harry Turtledove at his alternateworldbuilding best. At once intricate, exciting, witty, and wildly inventive, this is a manyfaceted gem from a master of the genre.

Binding: Paperback;310 pages; Publisher: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe; Classification: N/A; Weight: 476.52 g; Dimensions: N/A

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