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  • Genre:FICTION
  • SubGenre:Action & Adventure
  • Language:English
  • Pages:676
  • eBook ISBN:9781483555737

The Corinthian Conspiracy

by Alan Brookes

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Overview

Excavating at ancient Corinth in Greece, American archaeologist Zack Devlin and his team discover a dead Italian soldier from World War II. This discovery leads to the unraveling of a plot that was conceived decades ago and if realized would alter the balance of power in Europe and throw the world into a perilous state of danger and instability. As the impending coup launches, a team of criminals set out to hunt Devlin down and kill him. Devlin, determined to stop the plotters, flees from Corinth and battles his way from Delos through Crete to Santorini. He fights and plots to allude his adversaries and reach Athens in time to reveal the deadly plot. With the help of friends along the way, Devlin arrives in Athens, but is he in time to stop the Corinthian Conspiracy? Ancient scenes and modern events weave a tapestry portraying the continual struggle between freedom and slavery in this novel, a composite of fiction and reality playing out in today's world.

Description

Excavating at ancient Corinth in Greece, American archaeologist Zack Devlin and his team discover a dead Italian soldier from World War II. This discovery leads to the unraveling of a plot that was conceived decades ago and if realized would alter the balance of power in Europe and throw the world into a perilous state of danger and instability. As the impending coup launches, a team of criminals set out to hunt Devlin down and kill him. Devlin, determined to stop the plotters, flees from Corinth and battles his way from Delos through Crete to Santorini. He fights and plots to allude his adversaries and reach Athens in time to reveal the deadly plot. With the help of friends along the way, Devlin arrives in Athens, but is he in time to stop the Corinthian Conspiracy? Ancient scenes and modern events weave a tapestry portraying the continual struggle between freedom and slavery in this novel, a composite of fiction and reality playing out in today's world.

About the author

For many years Alan Brookes was an archaeologist who excavated around the ancient world at the Roman city of Minturnae in Italy, the Greek city of Cyrene in Libya, and at ancient Corinth in Greece. He has a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania and taught at universities in Iowa and California While digging at Corinth in the shadow of the famous Apollo Temple he uncovered the remains of the earliest stone temple built by the Greeks dating from the era of Homer. Alan invites you to enter his world as an archaeologist excavating in and traveling through Greece