Armenian-American novelist M.T. Mustian’s THE GENDARME, described as “The Madonnas of Leningrad” meets “The Bastard of Istanbul,” an epic novel about a 92 year old Turkish-American man suffering from dementia, who suddenly starts having vivid dreams about his role in the Armenian genocide of 1915, and of the young Armenian woman he fell in love with and spared — and how he sets out in secret to find her to beg her forgiveness, to Amy Einhorn in an exclusive six-figure preempt for Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, by Scott Mendel at the Mendel Media Group (world English).