Books
by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
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The Oracle |
Dying, an old archaeologist re-hides a mysterious, sinister Greek vase - but not before it attracts unwanted attention. From then on things turn nasty . . . A superior pot-boiler in which the General's brutal, corrupt and repressive Greece of the 1970s (much of the action is based on factual accounts) collides with the mythical Greece of the Mycenaean age. Passages of strong writing and revealing scholarship of both recent and ancient history rate a 'recommended' read.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 35 July 2006) |
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