The first book in the new noir trilogy by Heraklis Georgantis A story of love and hate, crime and personal search set against the backdrop of contemporary Athens Five completely different women, Christina, Lydia, Myra, Emma and Stefania approach, each with their own her way, happiness, love, power and the future. A crime, staged by Mario to look like an accident in order to collect life insurance, brings the lawyer Eridanos to the fore, who takes on the case. The presence of these two men becomes an occasion for conflicts but also for fragile alliances. The protagonists hide and hide from the truth, claiming more than their fair share. The investigator Vasdekis, appointed by the insurance company, moving methodically, arrives one step before the fraud is revealed. The subversive ending brings them all face to face with the truth they were unaware of. All could have foreseen it, if they had chosen to see things without the obscurity given to vision by the "three degrees of myopia." It is a series of three noir books with a common element of the incorrect understanding of the environment, to which the protagonists are led due to their frivolous tendency to formulate, as they see fit, unclear situations and emotions. For the author, the incomplete understanding of emotions and characters is similar to the blurred vision of the natural environment when one chooses to view it with the distortion brought about by three degrees of myopia. "If a man, who likes to travel, chooses a special stone from each place he has visited, he will inevitably at some point feel the need to build them into a total creation. If you collect experiences from life, there is no other way to build them than to write a novel. Just as fine buildings attract tourists, so fine books attract readers, I was told. A building is not built to stay hidden and a book is not written to stay in a drawer. You just keep building.” Iraklis Georgantis Iraklis Georgantis was born in 1970, lives in Athens, is a lawyer, continues to travel, collect and build. His book Three Degrees of Myopia – Christina is the first of the noir trilogy, which will be completed with the books Natalia, Anna.