The Ionia Sanction: 2 (Mysteries of Ancient Greece 2)

Corby has not only made Greek history accessible―hes made it first-rate entertainment. --Kelli Stanley award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of Dragons. Athens 460 B.C. Lifes tough for Nicolaos the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. His girlfriends left him and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered the brilliant statesman Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job.. The case takes Nico in the company of a beautiful slave girl to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think hes a spy. Beyond that there are only a few minor problems:. Hes being chased by brigands who are only waiting for the right price before they kill him.. Somehow he has to placate his girlfriend who is very angry about that slave girl.. He must meet Themistocles the military genius who saved Greece during the Persian Wars and then defected to the hated enemy.. And to solve the crime Nico must uncover a secret that could not only destroy Athens but will force him to choose between love and ambition and his own life.