Fool's Gold

The Village Idiots 'Fools Gold' is the second book in a trilogy of novellas, continuing the comedic capers of two local villagers as they hunt for promised treasure on board their inherited, but now sunken yacht.

Deciding the aging yacht was a burden, Takis plots a way to get their hands on the insurance money. But only as the yacht lies on the sea bed do the pair discover that not only was the policy void, but Captain George had hidden gold on board.

However, seasoned pirates they are not, and the treasure they are looking for is hard to come by. Takis takes his scheming to new depths, and poor Spiros bears the brunt of all Takis' eccentric plans.

But as we follow Spiros carrying out one bad instruction after another, we also start to glimpse the real man inside, the man Spiros didn't even know existed. As he takes to the sea to dive in search of riches, he discovers other qualities about himself and about the world around him, and it is dawning on him that he may not be so useless after all.

When Spiros finally finds what he and Takis think they want, they are yet to discover that as always in Greece, things are never as they seem; and when it comes to inheritance, nothing is straightforward.

Hilarious, heart-warming and filled with the Mediterranean sunshine, will the path taken by Spiros and Takis fill their futures with gold?


Genre: Literary Fiction