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‘With a clarity that is harp and painful, Fullerton’s first novel captures the emotions of small people trapped in a mad war: terror and privation, compassion and Balkan gallows humour. Given his narrative drive and masterly suspense, he has a very serious future’ Daily Telegraph
ROSSO is the Detective Inspector trying to find a murderer in a city at war with itself and under bitter siege
LUKA is the local crime boss exploiting the misery of the city’s inhabitants while providing the only realistic defence they may have left
TANJA is the young woman loved by both men and faced by an agonizing conflict of loyalties
SARAJEVO is the abused, battered, but defiant Bosnian capital in which their dramatic story is played out
‘I wouldn’t compare this to Gorky Park, I would compare it to Dante’s Inferno. The mystery is, why aren’t there more books as good as this? The reason is that very few of us have been to places as dark as this, and John Fullerton has’ Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park
‘An exciting told story set against the nightmare of civil war. Someone’s got to film it’ Time Out
Paperback, 348 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of creasing to the spine.