The Sultan's Vizier:

 A Short Story (Tales of Half Truths Collection Book 13)

Taken from his homeland by raiding Tartars to pay the Khan's blood tax, seven year old Pasa Bajica was enslaved and forcibly recruited into the Sultan's Janissary Corps. As an old man, he had outlived two sultan's and was now serving as Suleiman's adviser. Weighted by knowledge and by experience, he becomes a man verging on revolution when Suleiman takes his sons into battle. Rizayya, Sultanas of the Eastern Empire, devises a brutal strategy in effort to save her people from destruction at the hands of the advancing Ottoman army. In the Sultan's absence, the fearless Lieutenant Stephen Decatur out wits a nest of slave-catching pirates and leads the American fleet to attack Suleiman's fortresses throughout the Mediterranean.