The Scapegoat: A Novel

The Scapegoat: A Novel

<b>An engrossing and richly panoramic novel from a major new writer, based on a true story...</b><br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk—journalism’s prestigious Polk Awards were named after him—<i>The Scapegoat</i> 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. <br><br>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--<i>The Scapegoat </i>confronts questions of truth, justice, and sacrifice...and how the past is always with us.