Book description
In voluntary exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus receives a letter from
his antiquarian stepfather Priscus, who has learned that the 4¬? ft
solid gold statue of a female baker, one of a large number of valuable
gifts to the Delphic Oracle by the 6th century BC King Croesus of Lydia,
has reappeared and is being offered for sale in Athens on the black
market. Corvinus agrees to be his agent and to try and buy it. But, as a
result, he finds himself caught up in the world of organised crime, as
well as in a deadly struggle of interests with other, less scrupulous,
collectors. David Wishart studied Classics at Edinburgh University. He
then taught Latin and Greek in school for four years and after this
retrained as a teacher of EFL. He lived and worked abroad for eleven
years, working in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia, and now lives with
his wife and family in Scotland.
