Stand to attention! A new detective with a difference The Janissary Tree By Jason Goodwin FABER pounds 12.99 pounds 11.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

The Independent on Sunday | June 18, 2006| | Copyright

Jason Goodwin's books show an almost intimidating cleverness. A former Spectator/Sunday Telegraph Young Writer of the Year, he wrote encyclopaedic studies of the Ottoman Empire (Lords Of The Horizon), the dollar, (Greenback), and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for On Foot to the Golden Horn.

But in his non-fiction Goodwin, an an engaging enthusiast, never bludgeons the reader with his learning' he shares it excitedly. And now he does so in fiction.

The Janissary Tree puts us in Istanbul, 1836. Steaming tanneries stink of the dog faeces used to tan hides' cramped markets are fat with an ...

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