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Our meetup will be informal and fun, well discuss books, drink coffee or wine, and have some lively chatte. Nicolaos walks the mean streets of classical athens as an agent for the promising young politician pericles. He is the author of four other critically acclaimed athenian mysteries. Im currently working on a project outside the series, but i definitely know what happens next in the lives ofmore hi selle. The athenian mysteries series 7 primary works 7 total works nicolaos, the ambitious son of a minor sculptor, walks the mean streets of classical athens as an agent for the promising young politician pericles. His mission is to find the assassin of the statesman ephialtes, the man who brought democracy to athens and whose murder has thrown the ci. Click download or read online button to get the pericles commission book now. The pericles commission mysteries of ancient greece hardcover november 9, 2010. The pericles commission athenian mysteries, book 1 by gary corby book cover, description, publication history. He blogs at a dead man fell from the sky, on all things ancient, athenian, and mysterious. Greece after 2010s the pericles commission, professional investigator nicolaos, a protege of athens leading citizen, pericles, looks into the death of thorion, the proxenos or consular representative for the city of ephesus in athens.
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