The Obsidian Bull: A Novel of Occupied Crete, 1941

Anogia, Crete, the summer of 1941. The German occupation has climbed into the mountain villages, and with it comes Hauptmann Klaus Brehmer - not a soldier by temperament but an archaeologist, sent to inventory the island's antiquities for the Reich.

Beneath his church, Father Emmanouil guards a secret older than any empire: a Minoan rhyton of black obsidian, its base inscribed in a script no one can read. When Brehmer's trained eye turns toward the crypt, priest and officer are drawn into a ...