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Petros Markaris | Nychterino Deltio | English Title: Deadline in Athens<br>Novel, 464 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
464 Pages
Published in March 2000

ISBN 978-3-257-06241-0

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Petros Markaris
Nychterino Deltio

Published by Diogenes as Hellas Channel
English Title: Deadline in Athens

Costas Haritos is a CID chief based in Athens. He is uncomfortably married, has one daughter and relaxes by reading dictionaries. Aggressive and pessimistic, he is not very likeable; the manner in which he treats his clients is certainly not to be commended. One evening he is called to the scene of a murder: A renowned TV journalist, Janna, has been killed in a broadcasting studio just as she was about to go on air with some sensational news. The killer must have known about her investigations and wanted to stop her making them public. The first of the novels featuring Inspector Haritos exposes the corruption that has pervaded both private and public life in Greece since the fall of the military dictatorship, the advent of a democratic government and the explosion of barely controlled private entrepreneurship.

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»The misadventures of Haritos in a soaking, sleety Athenian December take us below the official city and the tourist city. They show instead the hidden urban networks of power and fear, of ambition and obligation. Any viewer impelled during a dull Olympic moment to wonder about the background setting rather than the foreground action - or inaction - should make a date with the morose, rule-bending but (of course) essentially decent Haritos at once.«The Independent

»Encouraged by the success of his first novel, Petros Markaris has started to write a follow up to the adventures of Commisar Haritos - one cannot but rejoice about this.«Le Monde

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