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The Dark Angel
by Mika Waltari
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Constantinople, 1452–1453. Johannes Angelos, a learned wanderer with ties to the Ottoman court and a concealed Byzantine inheritance, enters the threatened capital as Mehmed II prepares his final assault.
Written as Johannes’s diary, the novel follows the city’s desperate defence, factional conflict between Greeks and Latins, and his love for Anna Notaras. Cannons batter the walls and suspicion falls on anyone with divided loyalties as the Byzantine Empire approaches its last days.
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