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May 1, 2013

Sacred Games, Gary Corby

It’s Day 1 of the 80th Olympiad and a champion of Sparta lies dead.

Timodemus, his Athenian challenger stands accused of the murder and will be executed in four days time unless his friend Nico can save him.

Nico is appointed to investigate the crime along with his opposite number the Spartan, Markos. Helped by Diotima, his clever priestess girlfriend Nico races to unmask the real killer who may be trying to start a war.

Corby’s third book in this series is engrossing, funny, racy and strewn with the minutiae of daily life in another time.

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