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Dangerous Days 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 George 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 and Gold have received great praise in the UK, US and in Germany and Dangerous Days takes this crime series to a new level

Athens. Autumn. The start of a crazy week for private investigator George Zafiris. On Monday a friend is killed by a hit and run driver. On Tuesday the body vanishes. On Wednesday Zafiris begins to ask questions, and on Thursday the first death threats are made. By Friday things are starting to get complicated. A brilliant young concert violinist disappears, quickly followed by her husband. The police seem to be co-operative, but everywhere Zafiris looks, he finds obstructions, dishonesty, mysterious delays. As the country's debt crisis takes its toll on the people of Athens, suicides and illness proliferate. Zafiris finds his own life spinning dangerously out of control. A few days in an ancient monastery on Mount Athos seem to offer some respite. But there's a surprise waiting there too. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Greece and who like their crime fiction written in the Scandinavian manner.

At the heart of Codename Xenophon 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.