"I served in crime reporting for forty years, and in my professional career, I had the fortune to live a life with my fellow journalists, with police officers, with firefighters, but also with all kinds of criminals. Practicing journalism, my priority was always to inform my readers, listeners, and viewers correctly and objectively. I never liked condemning or acquitting criminals and all kinds of lawbreakers - that is not the job of a journalist. It is the job of prosecutors and judges. I never confused my role with the role of others - the roles are distinct. [...] I have personally met almost everyone included in this book. And I met all of them while reporting on the crimes for which they were accused and convicted - and I can tell you that they are also people with feelings, with flaws but also virtues, which many of them use for the wrong goals, for the wrong purposes. [...] I also wrote this book because I want to leave a legacy for future generations about the course of criminality in Greece over these forty years. To present the real facts that occupied public opinion and to outline people and situations without a trace of exaggeration and inaccuracy, while simultaneously conveying some positive messages for our fellow human beings and, in general, for Greek society - without, of course, playing the role of a teacher, prosecutor, or preacher."

Robbers who spend their money at bouzoukia and sew their lips with needle and thread, serial killers who kill for pleasure, polite burglars and ideologists of illegality, manhunts, cinematic escapes with helicopters, eventful arrests but also fatal mistakes by the police - notorious outlaws whom the police and Justice have placed in the criminal pantheon, through the eyes of Panos Sombolos.