Let’s Go… Athens
As the titles of Pol Koutsakis’s two crime novels featuring Stratos Gazis suggest, melancholy is the order of the day. The setting for Athenian Blues and Baby Blue is dystopian Athens, 2010 and 2015 respectively.
ATMs are broken, shops are shuttered, the grilles of manhole covers have been nicked for their copper, mail piles high in abandoned apartment blocks, and icon painters are among those who are homeless and living on Filopappou Hill (aka the Hill of the Muses), with its glorious view of the Acropolis and the jagged skyline. “Times.
