Wolf Pelt Launch

​Wolf Pelt: Cold War in Greece, Love, and Trust Revealed

In 1951, the newly established American CIA is getting its feet on the ground. A bankrupt British empire sells its cash-happy cousins a mole-ridden campaign to overthrow the Albanian communist government. The Brits call this armed insurrection Operation Valuable, and the CIA Operation BG/Fiend. Infiltration and logistics flow from Greece, a country overrun with spies from far and wide.

Stavros returns to Greece after World War II and his service in the OSS as commander of a Greek operational group. During the war, he wreaks havoc on Germans, learns “the Greek way,” and falls in love with the captivating Dimitra. After the war, the CIA recruits Stavros to return to Greece, posing as an academic pursuing his PhD. His actual mission is to organize a “cultural influence group” and support logistics for Operation BG/Fiend. He and his love, Dimitra, now working with the Archaeological Society of Athens, share a deep and fraught relationship.

Stavros encounters much local color as he winds his way through Greece. Personalities are not always what they seem, and Stavros falls into a precarious relationship with devious Penelope, “the mouse.”

“The Greek Stories” series

     Wolf Pelt is Book #3 in this four-book series. For a full background on Stavros, please read The Greek Boxer, Book #1, and American Andarte, Book #2. Fifty-Seven, Book #4, will release in mid-May. – SJH