University for Assassins, by Petros Markaris

University for assassins
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Sometimes the comparisons are shocking. That the good of Markaris consider the university environment as the germ of evil for a crime novel shows us the recent murky cases around a certain Spanish university ... With its sinister side even when the ties of teaching and politics are narrowed for abominable interests.

It is true that the shameful case of the URJ did not reach the bloodstream (that we know of). And so, in the Spanish case, the title would be University for Thieves, signed by Valle Inclán instead of Markaris ...

But an association of ideas aside, this new novel by Markaris introduces us to that elitist world of university domes and the usual doors of entry and exit to politics, which, although they seem appropriate for people prepared in various subjects, end up being a bed of favors and servility on more than one occasion. To the point of extreme revenge and death.

Everything happens at a time of transition in which our already immortal commissioner Kostas Jaritos looks out at the baton in the future of the Athenian police. He is the chosen one of the outgoing director Guikas, and it is to be expected that after playing the appropriate keys the replacement will occur naturally.

But the naturalness of the events and the figure of Kostas always becomes a contradiction. Everything is entangled with the death of a politician, formerly a law professor at the capital university. What begins as a case to be revealed by the good old Kostas, with more determination than ever, to earn even more if the city's police leadership is possible, begins to move along unpredictable paths in which the old campus of the University goes darkening around characters as learned as they are dark.

The old professor has been poisoned with a cake. The confidence of the teacher with whom you took it home must be maximum. The circle closes in its closest environment or, perhaps, in that other more unknown environment that sometimes also surrounds the lives of the most worthy and recognized characters of the intellectual field par excellence, the university.

You can now buy University for Assassins, the new book by Petros Markaris, here:

University for assassins
Available here
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