Pawn in frankincense.

Description:

Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan. At stake is a pawn in a cutthroat game whose gambits include treason, enslavement and murder.

subjects: Soldiers of fortune,  Fiction in English,  Fiction,  Francis Crawford (Fictitious character),  Nobility,  History,  Adventure and adventurers,  Crawford, francis (fictitious character), fiction,  Middle east, fiction,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: Scotland,  Middle East,  Istanbul,  Mediterranean

Times: 1552,  16th century