The Tournament
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The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send your finest player to compete in a chess tournament to determine the champion of the known world.
Thousands converge on Constantinople, including the English court's champion and his guide, the esteemed scholar Roger Ascham. Seeing a chance to enlighten the mind of a student, Ascham brings along Elizabeth Tudor, a brilliant young woman not yet consumed by royal duties in Henry VIII's court.
Yet on the opening night of the tournament, a powerful guest of the Sultan is murdered. Soon, barbaric deaths, diplomatic corruption, and unimaginable depravity—sexual and otherwise—unfold before Elizabeth's and Ascham's eyes. The pair soon realizes that the real chess game is being played within the court itself...and its most treacherous element is that a stranger in a strange land is only as safe as her host is gracious.
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Matthew Reilly. (2015). The Tournament. Gallery Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Matthew Reilly. 2015. The Tournament. Gallery Books.
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Thousands converge on Constantinople, including the English court's champion and his guide, the esteemed scholar Roger Ascham. Seeing a chance to enlighten the mind of a student, Ascham brings along Elizabeth Tudor, a brilliant young woman not yet consumed by royal duties in Henry VIII's court.
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May 25, 2015
The 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth Tudor, the narrator of this delightful, well-crafted thriller set in 1546 from Reilly (The Great Zoo of China), accompanies her tutor, Roger Ascham, to Constantinople, where the sultan Suleiman is hosting a tournament to determine the world’s chess champion. As part of her political education, Elizabeth has a memorable encounter with arrogant young Ivan, “grand prince of the Duchy of Muscovy” and future Ivan the Terrible, but her life lessons turn to the deductive when Suleiman puts brilliant Ascham in charge of investigating the murder and mutilation of an anti-Islamic cardinal just before the tournament’s start. She also gains a better understanding of man’s carnal nature from hearing about the Ottoman crown prince’s after-hours parties and spying on drunken priests cavorting with teenage boys in the priests’ chambers. Reilly remains true to the realities of his historical characters and effectively communicates Elizabeth’s feeling of being an inquisitive stranger without falling into undue exoticism. Agent: Suzanne Gluck, WME.
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May 15, 2015
Reilly is a master storyteller of modern adventure thrillers (Ice Station; Temple). In a departure from his usual motif, he sets this novel in Elizabethan England, featuring the Virgin Queen herself. On her deathbed, good Queen Bess recounts a tale of depravity and palace intrigue in which she was an unexpected witness. It is 1546, a plague is sweeping through England, and Elizabeth is 13 years old. When her father, King Henry VIII, receives an invitation from the sultan of the Ottoman empire to send his best chess player to an international tournament in Constantinople, Roger Ascham, the royal tutor, convinces the king to allow Princess Elizabeth to accompany the English delegation for safekeeping. Their visit to Constantinople is marred by sexual indiscretion, dishonesty, and murder. Owing to his reputation for logic, Ascham is asked by the sultan to solve the murders that have occurred during the tournament. With Elizabeth in tow, Ascham uncovers treachery and debauchery at the most exalted levels. VERDICT Fans may be disappointed in this slow-paced murder mystery with a chess theme that is far less captivating than Reilly's previous work. For a better example, see Katherine Neville's The Eight. Checkmate.--Laura Cifelli, Fort Myers-Lee Cty. P.L., FL
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Reilly is a unique, vivacious guide in this entertaining trip to the world’s first international chess tournament in 16th-century Constantinople, complete with murders, political and religious intrigues, and the assorted opulence and decadence of Sultan Suleiman’s Ottoman Empire. Reader Firth gives quite a performance as the curious, naive, strong-willed, and utterly charming protagonist Princess Bess, the 13-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and the late Anne Boleyn, who is on a journey with her brilliant tutor, Roger Ascham. Her vocal expertise is displayed as the future queen meets and matches wits with the sultan’s officious, misogynistic grand vizier, flirts with an arrogant, heavily accented teenage Prince Ivan of Muscovy (Bess claims to be the one to label him Ivan the Terrible), peeks breathlessly into the sultan’s son’s ultrahedonistic group-sex soirees, and assists Ascham as he searches for the murderer of six boys. Firth’s winning presentation of Reilly’s imaginative faux-historical yarn would be sinful to miss. A S&S/Gallery hardcover.
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