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Alexis Mantheakis, for several years a close friend and spokesman of Athina Onassis' family, takes the reader into the private world of the heiress. The reader will accompany the author and Athina to Scorpios, her private island, learn about a mystery woman and the bitter divorce action Athina has brought to end her 11 year marriage to Olympian show jumper Doda de Miranda Neto. You will also read about the father/daughter feud and what really went on and meet her Brazilian husband. Eccentric admirers, court cases, a controversial Brazilian wedding, the Onassis Triangle Curse, the secret of a...

A native son returns to the island of Crete a hundred years after his family emigrates to America and East Africa. The writer builds a villa on a small cove and introduces English tourists to the locals; hilarious incidents and cultural misunderstandings are the order of the day. We meet Telis, the bearded surgeon who has gone native, Lefteris, the mustachioed shepherd who runs the beach taverna where the tourists congregate, Minos, a diminutive reformed pimp who becomes the author's building supervisor. A minister of the Thatcher government falls ill before help comes from an unexpected...

Handsome Emmanuel Makris, a former teenage stowaway put ashore in turn-of-the-century colonial East Africa at thirty is the master of a large fortune and is the most eligible bachelor in the colony. In the small seaside tropical town of Tanga social life revolves around the Africa Hotel. There, an illegal backroom gambling den is to play a decisive role after Emmanuel meets Andrea, the stunning blonde daughter of an impoverished German count and countess. Matters are further complicated with the arrival of a new plantation manager from Depression-struck rural California, with his wife and...