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| Author | Dennis Wheatley |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Spy thriller |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 1935 |
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The Eunuch of Stamboul is a 1935 spy thriller novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley.[1] A British army officer is forced to resign his commission to avoid a diplomatic incident. He is dispatched to Istanbul and uncovers a plot to overthrow the government of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and restore a traditionalist sultantate, led by a eunuch who serves as a senior secret policeman in the present government.[2]