The Snake Stone

Download or read book The Snake Stone written by Jason Goodwin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.