A reliquary presumed lost for 400 years is stolen from a mosque in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire, and appears days later for sale in Europe. Istanbul's Kamil Pasha, under pressure to break the smuggling ring, confronts a mysterious adversary who will stop at nothing to get the reliquary first. Second in the series. "May infuses the wide range of characters – from a snobbish British official to a Turkish street urchin – with vibrant personalities, and her pacingis spot-on."—AudioFile