← Harry Mark PetrakisNick the Greekby Harry Mark PetrakisNovel of a legendary Greek gambler's rise and tragic fallFind on Amazon↗About the authorHarry Mark PetrakisHarry Mark Petrakis wrote lovingly and dramatically about Greek-American life in Chicago, drawing on his own immigrant family heritage. His fiction gave voice to the Greek diaspora in American literature.More by Harry Mark PetrakisLion at My HeartStory collection of Greek-American immigrant experiences→The Odyssey of Kostas VolakisNovel of a Greek immigrant's epic journey and American assimilation→A Dream of KingsNovel about a dying Greek immigrant man's final wishes→In the Land of Morning→