Nicholas Gage, who has written five books about his native Greece, based this novel on his intimate knowledge of the life, customs, and moral code of the Greek island villages that shaped the men who would come to dominate international shipping. A leading New York Times investigative reporter when he was researching this book, he met with Greek shipowners in New York, London, Paris, Athens, and the Greek islands. He talked extensively with them as well as their wives, children, and mistresses, and heard secrets and anecdotes that no outsider would have been told. Mr. Gage is the author of the international best-seller Eleni, which has been translated into more than 30 languages; the memoir A Place for Us; and the dual biography of Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas, Greek Fire. He is married to writer Joan Paulson Gage, and they have three children: Christos, a screenwriter in Los Angeles; Eleni, a novelist in New York; and Marina, an architectural executive in San Francisco.
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