Sacred Games
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Gary Corby
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299656079 (1299656072)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Soho Crime
Edition language: English
Series: The Athenian Mysteries (#3)
bookshelves: hardback, one-penny-wonder, ancient-history, greece, paper-read, published-2013, series, summer-2015, cover-love, under-500-ratings, historical-fiction, ouch, mystery-thriller, rituals, sport, slaves, amusing Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Read from Januar...
I told myself that I would finish Sacred Games during the Winter Olympics but during the Olympics I was, well, watching the Olympics so I didn’t finish this until the week after. This book about the ancient Olympics is a great companion to the modern Olympics. Definitely makes you think about them...
In this third installment in the series begun with "The Pericles Commission," Nico, his father, annoying little brother, and girlfriend, Diotima, have gone to the 80th Olympic Games, of 460 B.C. Nico's father is looking for a big commission from some victorious athlete (he's a sculptor), little brot...
I won Gary Corby's book here on Booklikes as a giveaway. Even though the description sounded really interesting, I didn't expect much because it's the third book of his Athenian Mysteries Series. But I was completely wrong. Even though it seems to be an ongoing series - at least concerning the chara...