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Title: Nice plot, no atmosphere.
Review: While the author is doing a good job in showing us how a victim might have been a victor but for his choice of assassin, the book is deficient in most other aspects. The portrait of Alexander is a bit pale, I found several anachronisms and other mistakes (e.g. the idea that parchment and papyrus are the same thing), the characters are too much 20th century, and the story is strangely lacking in mediterranean atmosphere. Did the author (who, of course, is not really named Anna Apostolou) ever visit Greece, I wonder?
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