Killing Pythagoras
By: by Marcos Chicot ; translated from the Spanish by Anamaria Crowe Serrano
Contributors: Serrano, Anamaria Crowe, translator
Publisher: [Unknown]
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Unknown]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 603
ISBN-13: 9781494740252
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fiction
Description: The venerable philospher Pythagoras, one of the most powerful political figures of his time, is preparing to name a successor from among his grand masters when a string of murders rocks the Pythagorean community. The killings, each more baffling and unpredictable than the last, gradually unveil the workings of a dark and powerful mind, more formidable than that of Pythagoras himself. Egyptian investigator Akenon and the enigmatic Ariadne work to identify the murderer while at the same time coming to terms with their own tumultuous relationship. The challenge they face is one in which the ghosts of the past are interwoven with the sinister threats of the present: a challenge form which it seems impossible they will escape alive.

Killing Pythagoras, based on real-life historical events, will plunge readers into an apparently unsolvable mystery. Readers will unearth cryptic clues and come face to face with some of the most unnerving characters ever to appear in the pages of fiction: Glaucus the Sybarite, the gruesome Boreas, the vengeful Cylon, and above all, the mysterious stranger who wields his prodigious capabilities to sow death.
Notes: Originally published in Spanish as El asesinato de Pitagoras.

Originally published in Spain in 2013 by Duomo Ediciones.--Title page verso.

"Finalist Planeta Prize"--Cover

Includes letter to readers [p. 585-92].

Includes excerpt of The Brotherhood [p. 593-601].