About The Missing Vizier
Hasdai Shaprut, Grand Vizier of the Umayyad Caliphate, has vanished. The disappearance the Kingdom of Córdoba’s highest ranking Jew, threatens the future of 10th century Europe’s most enlightened culture.
Caliph Abd- al-Rahman III enlists the help of investigator Solomon Levy who must journey to the Savage North in search of the missing vizier. Solomon’s search takes him into a world of political machinations intertwined with personal secrets as he becomes embroiled in a conflict between two deposed kings: Sancho the Fat and Ordoño the Wicked.
The Missing Vizier weaves fact with fiction in a tale of mystery, urgency, and personal sacrifice set against a backdrop of historical intrigue in Tenth Century Islamic Spain during a little known time in history when Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a harmonious society based upon religious tolerance and enlightened self-interested.
The Missing Vizier is the third and final medieval mystery in The Andalusian Trilogy.
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Author Bio:
William Mesusan lived and traveled in central Mexico where he pursued his dream of becoming a published writer. He wrote seven cover stories for El Ojo del Lago, Mexico’s most widely read English-language magazine, along with a dozen and a half e-zine articles.
Two trips to Spain, and research into the country’s past, inspired a series of novels set in 10th Century Islamic Spain. He’s self-published three books in The Andalusisan Trilogy series: The Galician Woman and The Bone Relic, and The Missing Vizier. A prequel (The Lost Manuscript) is forthcoming.
He is also the author of a standalone dystopian novel, The Sperm King. After reading Shanna H. Swan’s book COUNTDOWN: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race. Taking her research findings, he coupled them with the ongoing and projected effects of climate change to imagine a future that is scary yet feasible.