The Last Red DeathIRAKLIS a mysterious Greek terrorist group. A rogue offshoot of the communist party. At its head, a man with many names. An elusive master assassin who has been in exile for ten years. ALEX MAVROS half Greek, half Scottish investigator. A man driven by the desire to find his missing brother, last heard of at an underground resistance meeting during the dictatorship. GRACE HELMER an American who saw her father murdered when she was a child. Iraklis was

Unfolding with the beauty and power of fable

Children of Men and The Murder Room

he wakes to see hoof prints on the ground beside him

All Spain has fallen to the French

He must exercise his diplomatic skills on the uncivil Civilis

applying her sharp wits to the race to identify the victims and the reasons behind their abduction

such as Stephanos

It sounds like a fairy tale

With its broad scope and its intimacy and exactness

Or has one or other of his old crimes caught up with the failed plantation owner

and pressure from unseen governmental presences he struggles on

is the long-awaited return of an American master