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Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism, and ancient languages. Evocative, complex and beguiling, The Names is another major work from one of the 20th century’s great prose stylists.

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A serious and complicated novel which deserves praise . . . an outstandingly well-written and constructed book. * Guardian *
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      Publisher: Pan Macmillan
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781529092103, 978-1529092103
      ISBN10: 1529092108
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      Contemporary Fiction Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism, and ancient languages. Evocative, complex and beguiling, The Names is another major work from one of the 20th century’s great prose stylists.

      Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.



      Trade Review
      A serious and complicated novel which deserves praise . . . an outstandingly well-written and constructed book. * Guardian *
      Compelling . . . strange and wonderful and frightening. * New Yorker *

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