When half-Greek, half-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros is asked to trace a missing teenager, an immigrant of the former Soviet Union, he doesn't see any connection with the recent plague of violent killings afflicting Athens. As his search plunges him deep into the intricate network of underground crime, he is confronted by a wall of gang-inspired silence. One lead, however, takes him into a criminal organisation trading in illegal antiquites. As he follows the trail to the missing girl, he discovers that the present day killings have their roots in the brutal civil war. And that he has put himself in grave danger...

Author Biography

Paul Johnston was born in 1957 in Edinburgh, where he lived before going to Oxford University. He made his home on a small Greek island for several years and now divides his time between the UK and Greece. He is the author of six highly-acclaimed previous novels: Body Politic, won the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for best first crime novel, The Bone Yard, Water Of Death, The Blood Tree, The House Of Dust and featuring PI Alex Mavros, A Deeper Shade Of Blue and The Last Red Death.