The Athens Atrocities - Couverture souple

Arrowsmith, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1950565734 ISBN 13 : 9781950565733

Editeur : Gordian Knot Books, 2019

Synopsis

Polydektos was once a great general, the pride of the Athenian people.Now, after the death of his son Socos in battle, he has fallen into a life of debauchery. Spending his nights with his two young lovers Talaemenes and the slave girl Gala.After a night of drinking, Polydektos returns to this family villa to find everyone inside has been slaughtered. His wife and daughter have been dismembered in their own beds.Polydektos’s own nephew accuses him of the murder of his family, and he and his young lover Talaemenes have to stand trial for their very lives.Polydektos with the help of his old friend Sokrates must figure out the riddle of his wife and daughter’s strange murders. To clear his own name and get bloody revenge for their deaths.But will that answer bring him peace, or open up new wounds? Alexander Arrowsmith has had a lifelong fascination with Ancient Greece; its myths and its culture. It is a country he loves and has visited on many occasions. This the first in his series of historical crime novels set in those times.(Originally published as Pillars of Blood)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gordian Knot Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1950565734
• ISBN 13: 9781950565733
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg