The Greek Boxer: A Debt of Honor and the Ludlow Massacre

Immigration, America’s original sin or blessing? In the fall of 1913, the foothills of the Rocky Mountains are rife with warring factions, militant immigrants, union organizers, political intrigue, and violence unseen since the American Civil War. Amid the tumult, the wife of a striking miner is murdered. Colorado authorities won’t investigate. To them, the case is trivial. The miners demand justice and, true to their Greek heritage turn to one of their own, the son of a Nafpaktian assassin, my grandfather. -Steven James Hantzis

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. These books are scheduled to be released in 2026.

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.