Z by Vassilis Vassilikos, Translated from the Greek by Marilyn Calmann

First UK Edition, published 1969 by Macdonald Publishers, hardcover with dustjacket, 406 pages

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"Listen, this V.I.P. must be put out of circulation for a while. What's the V.I.P.'s job? Deputy. Communist? Yes, Yango. Must I use the three wheeler? Yes. This calls for thought. It calls for immediate action.

Four years ago Z was scrawled every-where in Athens. Z for zei - he lives; for Lambrakis had been assassinated in a Salonika street and a hero had been created.

Vassilis Vassilikos decided to write a novel round this crime, which had such a profound effect on the Greek people that 400,000 came in silence to the funeral. Based on detailed reading of the documents relating to the trial, as well as on his own understanding as a native of Salonika, Z is an essential document about Greece today.

But it is more than a mere work of analysis: combining passages of moving lyricism with the passion and anguish of a tragic land and a torn people, Vassilis Vassilikos has created a remarkable study of the forces that turn one man into an assassin, and a society into his accomplices."