Macedonian Gold

"His book is fiction, though based on a historical certainty: The tomb of Alexander the Great has never been discovered. But suppose an archaeological dig uncovered it, not in Greece, but in Macedonia? And then things started to go wrong on the dig, artifacts disappeared, the nearby townspeople seemed surly and secretive ... The plot thus far is perfectly satisfactory, but Seraphinoff then embellishes it with plentiful and authentic details about Macedonian culture, history and language. The reader, while carried along by the plot, may notice that at the same time he is getting a healthy dose of education on Eastern Europe. "