The Ghosts of Athens (Aelric)
✍ Scribed by Blake, Richard
- Book ID
- 108898713
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 254 KB
- Series
- Aelric
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781848947047
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Decadent, desperate sixth-century�Athens is the setting for the�fifth�historical thriller�featuring British adventurer Aelric
It is 612 AD and Aelric�senator of the Roman Empire, fresh from a bloodbath in Egypt�is forced to divert the Imperial galley to Athens.�He finds a demoralized and corrupt provincial city threatened by an army rumored to contain�20 million starving barbarians.�Not to mention an explosive religious dispute, an unexplained corpse, and hints of something worse than murder. He will have to call upon all his formidable intellect and lethal ingenuity to survive his enemies inside and outside the city walls.
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**Decadent, desperate sixth-century�Athens is the setting for the�fifth�historical thriller�featuring British adventurer Aelric** It is 612 AD and Aelric�senator of the Roman Empire, fresh from a bloodbath in Egypt�is forced to divert the Imperial galley to Athens.�He finds a demoralized and corrup
612 AD. No longer the glorious cradle of all art and science, Athens is a ruined provincial city in one of the Byzantine Empire's less vital provinces. The Emperor has diverted Aelric's ship home from Egypt to send him there, but surely there is more important business in Constantinople. Isn't Aelri