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  • MediaDB / «Icon, or Islands of Death" by Gary Van Haas: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2009 / Make a copy of the miraculous Greek icon "Panagia Evangelistria". Not too difficult a job for the talented copyist Garth Henson. However, he is confused by two questions: Why is the customer offering a huge amount of money for this rather simple task? And is there even a grain of truth in the legend, according to which God cruelly punishes anyone who tries to touch the icon for selfish purposes? In search of answers, Garth goes to the Greek island of Mykonos, where the icon is kept. And there events unfold at breakneck speed. Garth not only finds himself drawn into a deadly game of murder, blackmail and forgery, but bandits, adventurers and even intelligence officers begin to hunt him…