American Andarte

American Andarte is a war story and Book #2 in The Greek Stories four-book series. The protagonist, Stavros, is a babe in arms in Book #1, The Greek Boxer. By 1942, he is military age. He joins a special unit, the U.S. Army Greek Battalion. When that unit disbands, he joins an OSS Operational Group (OG). Stavros deploys to Greece as a commando to partner with the resistance movement against the occupying Nazis. In Greece he leads raids, learns the “Greek Way,” and falls in love with a guerrilla Kapetánios.

The Greek Boxer is the first in a four-book series called The Greek Stories. The companion books, American Andarte, Wolf Pelt, and Fifty-Seven, are set in Greece during World War II, and the espionage-laden years of 1951 and 1957.

A journey begins with The Greek Boxer.

A babe left forlorn in a defiled tent on an indifferent Colorado hillside, grows to adulthood. In American Andarte, Stavros joins other Greeks to battle Nazis in the Old Country as an OSS commando. As he leads his operational group in the mountains of Greece, a mythical kapetánios, Dimitra, captures his heart. Wolf Pelt unfolds in 1951 Greece, at the peak of American influence. Stavros, now CIA, orchestrates an influence campaign in Athens while covertly aiding the attempted overthrow of Albania’s Hoxha regime. The treachery of romance and espionage play side by side. Fifty-Seven caps the series, with Stavros returning to Greece. America is shaking in Sputnik’s shadow. Stavros must ferret Soviet agents in a vital NATO shipyard while Enosis, the Cyprus independence movement, intensifies. Threats loom over Stavros and friends, the stakes are high, and love endures.