The Fallacious Confession: Second Illustrated Edition

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One of the most respected institutions of human society is marriage. Despite the numerous attempts to renovate this old institution, marriage constitutes today, as efficiently as it did thousands years ago, the basis of human society, creating a stable environment for the born children to grow in safety and care essential for the safe evolution of the species. The fact few others cultures choose to use multiple manifolds of marriages to intensify its beneficial effects, should not be considered as social aberration or threat, but a clear indication this institution really works for as long as it lasts.
Of course, there are notable exceptions, as mankind is notoriously innovative, and the urge to violate laws is as powerful as to establish them. The present novel’s myth is about the intricate connection between marriage and fornication, world order and international terrorism, religious beliefs and atheist sectarianism, establishment and revolution; but most of all it is about one of the most powerful human urge of all, the urge to fight boredom by variation that haunts not only the youth but also the aged, as they both suffocate living within the bounds of a closed system like Mother Earth.
The novel's location is modern Istanbul recently renamed from the more world renowned name of Constantinople. This background choice came naturally, as besides Philip Mansel, the present author also believes Constantinople is 'the City of the World’s Desire', where everything can happen without a moment’s notice, and a city where intrigues, crimes, seductions, sieges, falls, rapes, looting, were in the past the rule for social behavior rather than the exception. Istanbul has always been a powerful melting pot located between Europe and Asia where new ideas were constantly born, consumed, digested and defecated as a useful fertilizer for the next set of 'divine' principles.
Istanbul has a lot in common with the reigning capital of devious crimes, London England, the residence of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. In fact, Istanbul has the advantage since fog and rain are almost as common, and Bosporus a more popular damping choice for dead or alive victims inside bags than Thames. It is also a city within its limits thirty thousand citizens were slaughtered by imperial Byzantine troops in the Hippodrome, during the reign of Justinian I and twenty thousands of Janissary troops were massacred by buckshot on the order of an Ottoman Sultan, just to name a few state produced mass crimes.
One should also consider the thousands upon thousands spirits and ghosts of war victims slaughtered by all sorts of imaginative weapons or burned to a crisp by liquid fire or drowned in the adjacent waters in a thousand year long history.
If Henry the Eighth had six wives and several concubines, how can he compare in lust with Ibrahim the Mad with his four legal consorts and one thousand concubines?
If British history contains the beheading of a single king in the Tower of London, Ottoman history had several Sultans murdered and innumerable princes strangled or poisoned inside Topkapi without having to add the Byzantine crimes inside the Great Palace or the Anema Prison.
If London was the city where the Ripper disemboweled his victims, Istanbul was the city where Vlad Dracula got his training as an impeller.
Therefore, in this magnificent surroundings it is natural to expect that singular criminals still lurk and plan new endeavors that will startle the globe as human beings are greatly influenced by the environment and one does not have to be an ecologist to realize it.
Now, if we add that Istanbul has the advantage of lying between Europe and Asia the two most violent continents, at the tip of the Anatolia Fault where not only terrible earthquakes called Little Doomsday occurred demolishing world heritage buildings like the Agia Sofia Fatih