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A city at once ancient and modern, Istanbul is the quintessentially postcard-perfect metropolis. But don’t let the alluring vistas fool you. For beneath its veneer as the meeting place of cultures, religions, and ethnicities lies a heart of darkness, seething with suppressed desire, boiling with frustration, and burning with a fervor for vengeance.

The latest installment in the new Jane Wunderly Mystery series. When vibrant American widow Jane Wunderly arrives in 1920s Turkey in search of her father, she finds a country redefining itself after the fall of the Ottoman Empire — and a deadly criminal who can’t escape the past... Istanbul...

The conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States takes another turn when two American students are kidnapped on a train to Istanbul. Dono, who has just gone to Europe on his honeymoon, finds that he and Maggie must rescue the students because their parents are respected GOP senators. Unfortunately, the CIA and FBI are both unable to help because of the political and administrative mess they are suffering. Consequently, Dono must rely on his CTU team and the trusty MQ-9 middle-size drone--Elvira.

The undersecretary of the British embassy in Istanbul has died while attempting to swim the Dardanelles Straits. The circumstances of his death have to be investigated, so the Foreign Office sends out an officer: Sandor Seymour, an unobtrusive Special Branch detective.

When Brent Fasslane, an exiled American conspiracy theorist, disappears in Istanbul, no one's surprised. Afterall, if you're a thorn in the side of the establishment, it's a matter of when, not if. But, when the attention of the world's media sends Fasslane's new book up the charts, the powerful start to worry. A damning account of corruption within the world's governments, the book fuels a demand for change, with fear, violence, and bloodshed not far behind. Leo and Allissa head to Istanbul in an attempt to prevent all out anarchy. 

The first World War is underway; Germany has allied with the Ottoman Empire, and the Turkish caliphs have declared jihad on the British Empire. Meanwhile, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson hesitates to enter the fray. Aboard the passenger liner Lusitania, war correspondent and American spy Kit Cobb has been assigned to shadow a German intellectual and possible covert agent who is believed to have information vital to the war effort. During the voyage Cobb is smitten with famed actress Selene Bourgani, who inexplicably seems to be working for the Germans.

Graham Greene, lo scrittore spia, scelse il treno per Istanbul, rievocante il fascino luccicante dell'Orient Express, per mettere in azione il suo campionario di tipi umani. I passeggeri del treno di Greene sono uomini e donne in viaggio attraverso l'Europa e attraverso le proprie vite: chi per la prima volta di fronte a una specie di amore, chi alle prese con un ultimo riflesso di idealismo; tutti, però, vittime e carnefici di un cinismo generale.

In the bestselling tradition of espionage novels by John LeCarre and Alan Furst, Istanbul Passage brilliantly illustrates why Edgar Award–winning author Joseph Kanon has been hailed as "the heir apparent to Graham Greene" (The Boston Globe). Istanbul survived the Second World War as a magnet...

With Stalin on the move to build a Russian empire that runs from the Arctic Circle to the Indian Ocean, Jake and Sally Burnes are dispatched to an exotic new location outside the sphere of traditional American interests: Istanbul.

SpyCo operative Perry Hall has one more chance to serve justice on his wife’s killer, a man he has sought for years. But now, the pursuit lands Perry in the crosshairs of his own agency, as he defies a direct order to continue the chase. As SpyCo’s top agents converge in Istanbul with orders to take him out, Perry races through the city streets, searching for the deadliest killer he’s ever faced.