Rik Stone
ASIN: B06Y5KYCTM
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Pages: 475
In the murky underworld of 1951 Istanbul, the death of a street urchin passes without meaning.Mehmet waits for his father on the north bank of the Golden Horn, little knowing he has been murdered by Beyrek Ozel, a one-time family friend.Zeki, a man working for Beyrek, has misunderstood Beyrek’s orders and kidnaps Mehmet, sets him to work running with a gang of street urchins, Little Dogs, who rob markets and souks.Down the line, Beyrek finds out Mehmet is alive and tells Zeki to finish the job as he should have done. Zeki doesn’t want to kill Mehmet in front of the other children, so he sets a task for him and his friend Senturk at the fish market in old Istanbul. The Little Dogs are notorious thieves and Zeki informs a corrupt police officer of them coming and a unit lie in wait near the market. Senturk is shot dead. Mehmet is wounded, but escapes the pursuit.On the run, Mehmet suffers ...