Hasdai Shaprut, esteemed counselor and Grand Vizier of the Umayyad Caliphate, has vanished. The disappearance the Kingdom of Córdoba’s highest ranking Jew, who also serves as Foreign Minister, 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.
