The scapegoat

ISBN: 9781612193854
ISBN: 1612193854
ISBN: 9781612193847
ISBN: 1612193846
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2015.

Nikolaidou, Sophia 1968- (author.). Emmerich, Karen. (Added Author).

Summary: In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder . . . but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young, disaffected high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk--journalism's prestigious Polk Awards were named after him--who was investigating embezzlement of U.S. aid by the right-wing Greek government, Nikolaidou's novel is a sweeping saga that brings together the turbulent Greece of the post-war period with the current era, where the country finds itself facing turbulent political...