While Khalid and Dawud are well-drawn characters, with Dawud having a delightful sense of humor, the two are more observers than investigators. The Aquinists take to an extreme the general European distrust of science and devaluation of women, unlike the very liberal and technologically superior Muslim republics. Senior Investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi, a Muslim, and his partner, Investigator Dawud ibn Musa, a Jew, have flown from Tunis to Rome to assist Grand Duke Cosimo in dealing with the increasingly dangerous Aquinist fanatics.
Alternate historian Turtledove ( A Different Flesh) gets heavy-handed with this allegorical novel that swaps clichéd ideas of Europe and the Islamic world.
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