<b>From a major new Greek writer, never before translated—a wide-ranging, muck-raking, beautifully written novel about the unsolved murder of an American journalist in Greece in the forties</b><br><br>In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder . . . but when he’s released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture.<br><br>Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young, disaffected high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth.<br><br>Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk—journalism’s prestigious Polk Awards were named after him—who was investigating embezzlement of U.S. aid by the right-wing Greek government, Nikolaidou’s novel is a sweeping saga that brings together the turbulent Greece of the post-war period with the current era, where the country finds itself facing turbulent political times once again.<br><br>Told by key players in the story—the dashing journalist’s Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator—it is the modern day student who is most affecting of them all, as he questions truth, justice and sacrifice . . . and how the past is always with us.