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Haldane arranges to meet up with some of his old comrades-in-arms, but is hurt when he receives an unexpectedly cool reception from his wartime left-hand-man and blood-brother, solicitor Babis Spiridakis.
Confused, Haldane sets out to re-visit some of the scenes of his wartime adventures, and along the way meets Anika Zeferis, a woman to whom he unexpectedly finds himself stongly attracted.
Although he is certain that he has never met her before he finds her strangely familiar, and as the plot unfolds the reader discovers secrets that tell Haldane that his instincts have served him well, secrets that he must keep from Anika if he is not to bring unhappiness, to her and to others in the group of people who have become his Cretan friends.
Much of the action takes place in and around the picturesque and still recognisable village of Elounda, the island of Spinalong and the mountains that overshadow them.
Unwittingly, Alan Haldane stirs up hatred amongst some of his aquaintances, with eventual tragic results, and the final scenes that take place amongst the wild and sparsely populated mountainous regions transport the reader into the very heart of a wilderness that is still to found by the intrepid explorer and paints a graphic picture of what it must have been like for memebers of the wartime Andarte to hunt and be hunted amongst these mountains.
Although set in a Crete of some thirty years ago, the locations will still be recognisable to the reader should he or she visit western Crete and chose to go in search of them. One does not even need a hire car to find most of the locations. The public bus service will do! Similarly the people, their customs and personalities are accuratly portrayed and today's visitor to Crete will find little that has changed, other than an upsurge of new building, to stand between him and the picture that this wonderful book paints for the reader with startling clarity.
When I first visited Crete I knew of the TV programme but had not seen any of the episodes.(I still haven't!) I bought a somewhat snad-blasted copy of the book from a shop on Elounda's tiny habour and I read the story with no preconceptions, finding its graphic descriptions and action gripping and informative. Fifteen years later I still do!
A superb 'read', a great nostalga-generator for anyone who loves Crete, and a must for anyone planning their first visit to the island.
Read it - I promise you that you will not regret it!
Oh, and as a bonus, Amazon.co.uk still advertise the occasional recording of Yannis Markopoulos' music written to accompany the YV film. That, too, is worth your attention.
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