A New York Lawyer in the Court of Pericles: A Time-Travel Adventure

by David Schenck

A modern man trapped in ancient Greece!If you were suddenly thrown 2500 years back in time would you be a king or a slave? Would any of your modern knowledge be useful? When Robert Kakos, a lawyer for a New York bank, in Athens as part of a team working on the Greek financial crisis, suddenly finds himself in the Athens of the 5th Century BCE, he must struggle to find value in his modern knowledge. What good is it to be the only man on earth who knows that the Sun is a giant nuclear furnace, cheerfully compressing hydrogen into helium under the pressure of its tremendous weight, or the inverse square law of gravity or a thousand other things that make up the body of modern knowledge if you can't make anything or do anything or prove anything? Join Robert as he fights to make a place for himself in the ancient world. Along the way he meets a host of colorful characters, slaves and merchants, Pericles and Socrates. Can a modern man find the love and family that has always eluded him and change the course of history?This book is the omnibus edition of the "New York Lawyer in the Court of Pericles" series and contains both "Mathalke's Tail" and "The Great God Einstein".

271 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 21, 2016

Reviews

[Nicole Normand · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found this book for free on Amazon via Freebooksy; this is my honest review.
-Loved the beginning while still in modern days. Loved how the time-travel occurred.
-Over-the-top situations, some funny some not. Modern guy recreating old days with modern ideas and changing history. But is it for the best? What would you change if you had the ability to make it better? All the way unbelievable but worth the time reading.
-Didn't like the kidnapping issue: too long (almost the whole story) and really, the kidnapper was laughing in their face and they took it in stride and gave in all the way, without bargaining for more reasonable demands. Unacceptable.
-There was not much that could tell you they were living in the years before the birth of Jesus. Thos and his wife were even swearing (getting the F word out in times of stress).
-I got tired of reading at about 80%. Fortunately, the book finishes at 88%. The rest is for excerpts of other books.

[Marina Maidou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even if it's written like a summary of the book, you get in the atmosphere of the Ancient Greece, especially from a slaver's view. The ideas that Robert gets to make the world he got, because of his time-travel, a better place for his unborn child are funny and tragic at the same time. Vodka? Great God Einstein? Fireworks? Well, it was a pleasure to read this unusual philosophic novel and Mr. Schenck has surely a lot of bright ideas for more, unique stories.

[Bonnie Dale Keck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kindle Unlimited, dragged a bit here and there and too many names at least for me {natural speedreader though}, but was quite different and held my attention,

A New York Lawyer in the Court of Pericles: A Time-Travel Adventure {also called Malthake's Tail: A New York Lawyer in the Court of Pericles, Book 1, A Time-Travel Adventure elsewhere, same book}.
The Great God Einstein: A New York Lawyer in the Court of Pericles Book 2, A Time-Travel Adventure