Book jacket discolored, chipped and torn in one spot on spine GP Putnam’s Sons, 1974 book club edition, 441 pages The Greek is the lover of the world's most renowned beauties. Among them are the tempestuous pianist Olympia Menelas, noted for her rages as well as her passions, and Peggy Baltimore, the tragic widow of an assassinated American politician who looks to Satrapoulos for a return to life. The Greek is a novel that blazes with intrigue and drama as the Olympian superrich battle for supremacy in business, in the bedrooms, and on the oceans of the world.