Pankration by Dyan Blacklock


ISBN
9781864482959
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2012
Binding
Paperback
Pages
180
Dimensions
130 x 195mm

This is a lively historical novel, set in Ancient Greece, full of high drama (plague, kidnapping, slavery, fight with a wolf, escape . . . ) which culminates in fierce hand-to-hand combat (The Pankration) at the Olympic Games.

The two men were circling each other with all the angry energy of fighting bulls, in front of a crowd that was already wild with excitement. The Pankration was what most of the onlookers had come to Olympia to see; the strongest men in Greece fighting bare-fisted and unarmed, until one of them surrendered, or died. This was blood sport...

Nic is on the run; from the plague in Athens, from savage pirates, and from the slave who wants him dead. If only he can reach Olympia and find his friend Gellius, he'll be safe - or will he? At Olympia the last and most terrible of his enemies is waiting...
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