The stories range from teenage mischief in the naïve, revolutionary sixties to the humourous misgivings of students' travel and odd jobs; from soldiers’ battles in the Middle East to terror fighter’s impossible choices. This prose collection reaches the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, Paris’s working-class bars and the seventies’ free-love scene, the underwater realm in tropical seas and the unmarred vineyards of rural Greece. Although largely fictional, these short stories are based on true event