CROW BOOKS | 2025
A Body in London
by Michael Katakis
Paperback, 248 pages
Published 00 Month 2025
Language: English
PRAISE FOR MICHAEL KATAKIS’ WORKS
“A Body in London is a great old fashioned thriller that’s impossible to put down.” Michael Palin
“Road Songs is a new American classic and a literary Jewel.” Sabrina Gabriele
“Dangerous Men is mesmerizing. These are wonderful, devastating stories, filled with dread and death, yet suffused with decency and love. I loved it.” Ken Burns
“His is a voice full of common sense and simple humanity that seem to have been lost in contemporary America.” Henry Marsh
“The prevailing characteristic of Michael Katakis’ travel writing is its humanity.” Susan Griffith
“Some of our finest nature writers . . . They reveal a marvelous variety of motivations for stewardship as an approach to living in nature.” Los Angeles Times Book Review
My Dear Sir Thanatos, shall we play?
Respectfully yours, Makris
At 11.37 pm on September 21, 1948 a body is found near London’s Borough Market. During the autopsy, a note is discovered in the dead man’s coat. Sir Thanatos Boyd, named after the Greek god of death and considered England’s greatest detective, is taunted by personal notes from a killer whose victims are believed to have died from natural causes. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse that awakens Thanatos’ dark and dangerous past.
Their dance of death will blur any notions of good and evil.
Michael Katakis is the author of a number of books, including Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life, Despatches (special limited edition), The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, A Thousand Shards of Glass: There Is Another America, Traveller: Observations From an American in Exile and Photographs and Words (with Kris L. Hardin). He is the editor of Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility and Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans. His work has been translated into multiple languages and his writing and photography have been collected by a wide range of institutions, including The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC; the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Library in London; and Stanford University’s Special Collections Department. In 1999, Michael was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in Paris and Carmel.