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Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part Four
First published 2013
After a desperate sea fight, Tom Swan wakes badly wounded in one of the remaining Christian strongholds in Greece. Competing patrons soon identify his value and offer employment connected to a fabulous jewel said to have belonged to Alexander the Great.
The commission carries Swan back into the networks linking Rome, Italian courts and the eastern Mediterranean. As merchants, clerics and spies pursue the same object, he must decide which promises can be trusted and whether the antiquity he seeks is a scholarly treasure, a political symbol or bait designed to expose everyone who wants it.
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