The Pericles Commission

Books

'A ROLLICKING ROMP THROUGH ANCIENT ATHENS, WITH CAPTIVATING CHARACTERS AND ENGROSSING, SUSPENSE-FILLED TURNS . . . GARY CORBY HAS NOT ONLY MADE GREEK HISTORY ACCESSIBLE - HE'S MADE IT FIRST-RATE ENTERTAINMENT.' - Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of Dragons Athens, 461BC. A dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of a surprised Nicolaos. It doesn't normally rain corpses. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy. Rising young statesman Pericles commissions Nicolaos to find the assassin. Nico walks the mean streets of Classical Athens in search of a killer, but what's really on his mind is how to get closer - much closer - to Diotima, an intelligent and annoyingly virgin priestess, and how to shake off his irritating twelve year old brother, Socrates . . . 'Classical Athens, a time of bustling rivalry, artistic genius and dramatic events, are all superbly captured in this exciting saga of flesh and blood characters who ...