 Obese and a hypochondriac, Zervas was reluctant to take up the arduous life of an "andarte" (guerrilla), preferring to stay in Athens.The SOE had a low opinion of Zervas's ability to lead with one agent writing bitterly of his "disregard of even elementary organisation".The same report mentioned that Zervas "hopes for the best but employs a crowd of useless officers, because it would disturb the peace to fire them...As an organiser, his value is NIL".