White Mountains

Crete, 1947. The Germans are gone. Now Greeks are fighting Greeks.Lieutenant Andreas Markakis is sent into the White Mountains with a small government patrol and orders that sound simple on paper: locate the Communist guerrillas operating among the peaks, uncover their supply network, and destroy or capture their leaders.Nothing in the mountains is simple.The enemy knows the trails, the caves and the villages. Informers operate on both sides. Old friends from the resistance now face one another across rifle sights, while villagers trapped between government forces and guerrillas must decide whom to trust-and what they are willing to do simply to survive.For Sergeant Manolis Vardakis, the mission is painfully personal. The guerrilla commander they are hunting, Captain Leonidas Vrettos, once saved his life fighting the Germans. Leonidas's sister is the woman Vardakis once intended to marry.As ambushes, executions and betrayals drag the patrol deeper into the mountains, Markakis discovers that the conflict is no longer simply government against Communist. Rivalries are tearing the guerrillas apart, a ruthless figure known as the Teacher is manipulating both sides, and someone inside the government forces is feeding information to the enemy.Soon Markakis must decide how far he will obey his orders-and how much he is willing to risk to prevent the civil war from consuming everyone caught between its opposing sides.Set against the rugged landscape of post-war Crete, The White Mountains is a historical war novel about loyalty, betrayal, friendship and ordinary people trapped inside an extraordinary conflict.Yesterday they fought the Germans together.Today they are expected to kill each other.