Wayward Son by Pollack Tom

Author:Pollack, Tom [Pollack, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: covenant, novel, christian, biblical, egypt, archeology, Adventure, ark
ISBN: 9781450769587
Publisher: Cascada Productions
Published: 2011-04-05T05:00:00+00:00

My dear Agathon, your presence is urgently requested! Take passage on the first ship at your disposal for Ephesus. I enclose a small sum for your travel expenses. I will have you met and conveyed via the Royal Road to Babylon. Here in Persia there are exciting opportunities, and an even more exciting future may be envisioned. Do not fail me!

Faithfully, as ever,

Your friend,

Themistocles

Cain was not entirely surprised. Themistocles was, if anything, resourceful. Seven years earlier, in 472 BC, he had been ostracized by the Athenian assembly, largely due to his abrasive arrogance in boasting that he was the “savior of Greece” at Salamis. The vote meant that Themistocles would have to leave the city for a minimum of ten years, with a penalty of death if he returned beforehand.

After this blow, the politician’s troubles multiplied. An envious political party at Sparta had accused Themistocles of treason and had collaborated with his enemies in Athens. As a result, he no longer found it safe to remain within Greece, let alone in his native city. At first he withdrew to the northwestern kingdom of Molossia, then to Macedon, then to Asia Minor, and finally to Persia.

All this time, Cain had kept in contact with his old friend by letter. This in itself was extremely risky, since the Athenians had officially condemned the architect of their victory at Salamis as a traitor. But Themistocles, who still had numerous admirers in Athens, used trusted couriers for the correspondence.

Cain weighed his options. It was ironic in the extreme that Themistocles was apparently now consorting with his erstwhile mortal enemies, the Persians. Yet, years earlier, Cain had seriously considered the possibility that Themistocles, in the event of an impending Persian victory, might have been willing to do a deal with the Great King. If there were two qualities that marked his friend’s mind and emotions, they were cunning and ambition.

What, Cain wondered, were these “opportunities” of which Themistocles wrote?

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