Balthasar’s Odyssey

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In the Koran, there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic “year of the beast,” 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant embarks on a quest to find the answer. He sets out on a journey that will take him across the breadth of the civilized world.