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The first in a new series featuring contract killer Stratos Gazis, set in contemporary Greece, a country teetering from one crisis to the next. With a strong first-person narrative voice, and many philosophical observations.
Info autore
Pol Koutsakis was born in 1974 in Chania, Crete, Greece. He is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. In 2007 he won the National Award for Playwriting in Greece. His plays have been staged in the USA and the UK and published in Canada. He is currently living in Perth, Australia, with his wife, daughter and son. “Athenian Blues” is his first crime novel and the first of his books to be translated into English. The next in the series, “Baby Blue”, will be published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2018.
Riassunto
Stratos Gazis is a walking contradiction: He's a cold-blooded contract killer with a conscious. Normally this is not a problem. But in this case contradictions can lead to hesitation, and, in the world of the hired assassin, even the slightest hesitation can be lethal.
