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A panoramic novel set in Greece in the dark days of World War II when the German blitzkrieg was marching across Europe, and in Africa Rommel had battered the British forces to their knees. One thing stood between the Desert Fox and certain victory--- a vital lifeline of supply ships sailing to North Africa from the sparkling waters of the harbor of Piraeus. It was a situation made to order for Petros Zervas, the man with the black worrybeads. . . The first time Nico saw the name Petros Zervas, it was tattoed on the stomach of a local trollop. Petros was only fourteen, but even then he had a achieved a reputation for leadership, bravery---- and ingenuity. When Major David Cunningham, an American assigned to British Intelligence in Piraeus, first saw Petros Zervas, the young man had just pulled off an audacious theft right under the Germans' eyes. Then and there Cunningham knew he had found his man to act as leader of the Greek underground forces. When Trudi Richter, the beautiful Austrian mistress of the German Commandant in Piraeus, got her first look at Petros Zervas, he had a stilleto poised at her neck. Trudi believed in survival at any price--- yet instinctively she knew that for this impudent Greek daredevil she would do anything, sacrifice everything. . . The Man With the Black Worrybeads builds in one long sustained rush to the dramatic attack on the Axis fleet in Piraeus, a massive operation that involves all participants--- the British, the Nazis, Petros, Nicos, even Trudi--- as the fate of the war hangs in the balance.

ISBN 0-595-00397-4