Leo Kanaris

At the heart of Codename Xenophopn is the Greek nation: its history, culture and current predicament. We see a dysfunctional society through the eyes of George Zafiris, an Athens based private investigator. A thoughtful loner, he is forced to probe the heart of a failing society as he investigates a series of crimes the police show no interest in solving. A distinguished professor of ancient history is shot dead. Then a politician dies in mysterious circumstances and a journalist is murdered. George Zafiris has to find out if these deaths are connected. A gang of Georgian thugs may know the answer. Leo Kanaris has written a thoughtful crime mystery and has created a private investigator the Greek nation can be proud of.

Dangerous Days is both a state of the nation novel and a thoughtful and engaging crime novel. It is the third adventure for private investigator George Zafiris in crisis-torn Greece. It shines a light on the most secret and closely guarded sanctuary of Greek life - the family. While the State lurches between dysfunction and bankruptcy, blood relations turn to each other for support. Debts are written off, misdemeanours forgiven, jobs found for unemployables. But if charity begins at home, it also ends there. Networks of obligation bind people so tight they can never escape. Jealousy runs rampant. Nepotism keeps talent suppressed. Crime and corruption are buried in silence. While solving other people s problems Private Investigator George Zafiris gets more deeply entangled in his own. When the offer of work arrives from a polluted family source, he is forced to make an impossible choice between poverty and collusion in crime. Both the previous novels, Codename Xenophon and Blood & Gold have received great praise in the UK, US and in Germany and Dangerous Days will take this crime series on to a new level. 'With this, his second novel, Kanaris has advanced to a five-star rating.' Barry Turner in The Daily Mail ' This series is an intelligent, engrossing treat.' Mike Parker in Tribune ' we need more cracking good crime stories like this one, to entertain, illuminate, and inform.' Georgia de Chamberet in Book Blast