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The Scapegoat

by Sophia Nikolaidou
Karen Emmerich
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An engrossing and richly panoramic novel from a major new writer, based on a true story...
In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A small-time 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 contemporary Greece, where a rebellious young high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. And as he begrudgingly takes it on, he begins to make a startling series of gripping discoveries—about history, love, and even his own family's involvement.
Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk—journalism's prestigious Polk Awards were named after him—The Scapegoat is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of the post-World War II era with the Greece of today, a country facing dangerous times once again.
As told by key players in the story—the dashing journalist's Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator, and, finally, the modern-day student, in the novel's most stirring narration of all—The Scapegoat confronts questions of truth, justice, and sacrifice...and how the past is always with us.

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