"While we were putting the finishing touches before the book went to the printer, we learned the sad news. Giorgos Delastik, the teacher, the friend, our companion, passed away. The grief is indescribable, but so is our desire to keep his important work alive. In a charged atmosphere, always in consultation with his loved ones, we felt it was our obligation to proceed with the final edition of the book, unchanged, without alterations or additions.

We are aware that the book you are holding in your hands, which was shaped under the conditions we mentioned earlier, is by no means a complete assessment of a multifaceted personality like Giorgos Delastik. We hope it is just the prelude, that more works and references will follow in order to preserve his work and actions alive in our memories in these difficult times we live in."

Vasilis Broumas selects some of the diamond articles written by Giorgos Delastik during the period 1989-2017. Thanasis Skamnakis, in the book's foreword, and Marianna Tziadzi, Petros Papakonstantinou, and Leonidas Vatikiotis, all close friends and colleagues of his, outline his career in journalism, as well as other aspects of his personality.