..., but it must be told. It is the story of my brother, Grigorios A. Stavrou, a story kept under wraps for fifty years until his nation, Greece, decided to lift him from the anonymity imposed by the nature of his work: espionage against the regime of Enver Hoxha in Albania. Lifting...

..., Grigorios, joined the Greek intelligence service. Grigorios was dispatched on a mission to what had become the Socialist Peo- ples Republic of Albania. He was captured, tortured, tried, condemned to death, and finally executed in September 1953. This was perhaps the central event in Niko’s life...

.... Against the violence and repres- sion of the Second World War, the Civil War, and the Junta, the 1948 murder of CBS journalist George Polk, the 1963 murder of Grigorios Lambrakis, the thirty assassinations carried out over twenty-­five years by November 17, the 2008 killing of fifteen-­year-­old...