The Rage of the Vulture (Norton Paperback Fiction)

It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham an Englishman in Constantinople is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markhams hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before he had been involved with an Armenian woman. On the evening of their engagement the Armenian massacres erupted. Saved by his British citizenship he witnessed the brutal rape and murder of his fiancee. Amid the breakdown of the Turkish empire he now seeks revenge.