In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istanbul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission and the secret motivations of the other travelers in their group.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: voyages and travels, fiction, fathers and daughters, spies, historical fiction, turkey, history, ottoman empire, 1288-1918, fiction, middle east, 20th century