
Synopsis
Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism, and...
Details
416 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A serious and complicated novel which deserves praise . . . an outstandingly well-written and constructed book.Guardian
Compelling . . . strange and wonderful and frightening. New Yorker