Enlightenment - Maureen Freely

An investigative journalist returns to Istanbul, the scene of her early love affair with Sinan. She is forced to overcome her qualms when she is asked by his 'honeypot' wife to help her regain her son, taken away by the American authorities when Sinan is arrested on entry into the States.A tense thriller involving a retired secret service informer, a mysterious 'trunk' murder, and a group of young students involved in subterfuge, but now tackling a real crisis, Maureen Freely's novel shows that in Turkey, nobody is who they say they are, and everyone is a suspect.