Against the charming background of New York, Alex Kosmatos, the later Lone Warrior, in the hands of the Japanese Akira, descendant of a samurai, unravels the ghosts of his childhood and transforms into a winner of Life.
His teacher, the French Catherine, introduces him to love and the great values of human existence.
His diplomat father's fraternal friend, Peter Dracos, leads him into the magical world of advertising.
The woman of his life is the journalist Sofia Aguile, granddaughter of the old mobster Don Giovanni.
Around these faces revolves a multitude of distinct people. Brave and honest samurai. Saints and warriors of the East. Mobsters thirsty for blood, money and revenge. Women ambitious, dark, but also tender, divine taken from the glittering world of fashion, women's magazines, business and intellectuals. Greek immigrants, cheap fuel most of them in a voracious and inhuman profit machine. Famous politicians, the "Greats" of the Second World War and the press magnates. The Greek civil war - a Greek communist, a mathematician, who reaches the brink of madness - McCarthyism in America, Kissinger and Makarios. The glamorous and tough world of business.
It is a powerful and charming story about the art of Life.
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