{"product_id":"the-crotone-code-the-trireme-of-madrid","title":"The Crotone Code. The Trireme of Madrid","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne Monday in September, off Capo Colonna in southern Italy, underwater archaeologist Valeria Castoldi brings up a lead anchor stock two and a half thousand years old. It was dedicated to Hera by Phayllus of Crotone, the athlete who fought at Salamis with a ship fitted out at his own expense, the only Greek from the West to do so. Beneath the dedication is a word no votive offering should ever contain: ΠΡΟΔΟΣΙΑ. Betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat same day in Madrid, the Prime Minister of Spain signs a decree closing ports, airports and bases to weapons bound for the war. One minute later, on the markets, the attack on Spanish government bonds begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two stories share the same enemy: the \"Guardians of the Strait,\" merchants who twenty-five centuries ago lent money to the King of Persia against the Greeks, and whose heirs have financed every side of every war ever since. The anchor stock hides a code that could destroy them. In eight days, hunted, stripped of her job and her name, Valeria must read it before they do: from the length of a legendary jump to the stars of a constellation, from Crotone to the sanctuary of Delphi. In Madrid, meanwhile, one man must decide whether to save himself with the same weapons as those who are attacking him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn archaeological and political thriller that weaves together ancient Magna Graecia and today's Europe, the sea and the markets, memory and the courage not to watch from afar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Because there are those who fight wars. And those who, since the beginning, have merely made them possible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second novel by Mario Raniolo, painter and author of «The Colour of Matter» and «Matter Doesn't Lie».\u003cbr\u003e318 pages · 17.8 × 25.4 cm · paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished by MArt Srl, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MrArt Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55345501274453,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/0891\/3237\/files\/01copertinafronte_086f0fb8-47da-4885-ae62-5cd11bf7c9a2.jpg?v=1792077919","url":"https:\/\/mrartstudio.com\/products\/the-crotone-code-the-trireme-of-madrid","provider":"MrArt Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}