The Man of Constantinople - Jose Santos

“In commerce, as in love, anything goes.”

This is one of the principles that the “Man of Constantinople” adhered to, who was born in an exhausted Ottoman Empire and became, thanks to his love of adventure and the strength of his ambition, one of the richest and most influential men in the world.

This wonderful novel derives its material from real events and tells the amazing journey of this adventurer, diplomat, businessman and art lover, and reveals to us the secret of his tremendous rise, and takes us with him through the winding alleys of Istanbul's bazaar, to the first oil fields in the Middle East, passing through Marseille, London, and Paris... Where we encounter figures such as Emmanuel Nobel, Cesar Ritz and Winston Churchill, we also experience some historical upheavals with him and receive, fascinated, an inexhaustible lesson: knowledge is power.

This beautiful lesson in life and history also puts us before a question that has always bothered the “Man of Constantinople” and asked it a question while he was on his death bed: What is beauty? Let us travel, then, in this world of beauty and discover the wondrous world of the Portuguese writer Jose Rodriguez dos Santos, who is considered one of the greatest writers of novels in modern world literature, and is rightfully called “Portuguese Dan Brown.”

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