This is a unique creation, valuable and immediate as testimony. It deals with the life and death of the notorious bandits of Olympus and the surrounding area (Giankoula, Tzatzas, Babani, etc.).

It is written as a narrative taken directly from the mouths of the eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of each event it discusses. The authors' descriptive narrative style is naturalistic, one could say: the ideal way to preserve elements of folk culture that have now been lost.

The narrative is lively, juicy, direct, detailed, unmediated, without embellishments, without positive or negative mythologies and fabrications. The book is an invaluable document but can also be read as a novelistic account, as a narrative of popular pamphlet.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]