His entry begins:
I have books strategically positioned about the house and pick up each whenever I stop. Since we have an estimated 4,000 books on our shelves this is very easy. So here, by position, are the books I'm currently reading:About Sacred Games, from the publisher:
By the sofa:
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie. Yes, really. I know it was written sixty years ago but I love to reread those old Golden Age mysteries....[read on]
The third book in the critically acclaimed series set in Classical Athens, featuring the historically inspired amateur detective Nicolaos.Learn more about the book and author at Gary Corby's blog.
It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is hot favorite to win. His only serious rival is Arakos from Sparta. When Arakos is found beaten to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. Who else could have killed the second-best fighter in allHellas but the very best? The Judges of the Games sentence Timodemus to be executed in four days' time, as soon as the Sacred Games have finished.
Complicating everything is the fact that Athens and Sparta are already at each other's throats, in the opening stages of a power struggle for control of Hellas. If an Athenian is found to have cheated at the Games by murdering a Spartan, it will be everything the hawks in Sparta need to declare open war the moment the Sacred Truce is over. And that's a war Athens cannot hope to win.
Nico and his partner in sleuthing, the annoyingly clever priestess Diotima, have four days to save their friend and avert a war that would tear their world apart.
The Page 69 Test: The Pericles Commission.
Writers Read: Gary Corby (November 2010).
My Book, The Movie: The Pericles Commission.
My Book, The Movie: The Ionia Sanction.
Writers Read: Gary Corby (November 2011).
The Page 69 Test: The Ionia Sanction.
The Page 69 Test: Sacred Games.
Writers Read: Gary Corby.
--Marshal Zeringue
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