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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Black Swan; New edition edition (1 April 2004)
  • ISBN-10: 0552150231
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552150231
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Vlado Petric, an ex-detective from Sarajevo, now lives in the newly reunited Berlin and works on construction sites. It's a life, but only just. And then he goes home one night to find Calvin Pine waiting for him. Pine is from the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague and he wants Petric to go back to Sarajevo and help with a complex plan to effect the arrest of a Serb general implicated in the massacre at Srebenica. Petric agrees, even though he's fairly sure there's more going on than he's being allowed to know. The book has a plot as tortuous and snakelike as Balkan politics itself, and the feeling of unease, of constantly walking on shifting sands, never knowing who to trust, is palpable - a brilliant follow-up the John Creasey Dagger Award-winning Lie in the Dark. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'This tight intelligent thriller chillingly describes a world in which justice is always a negotiation between highly compromised alternatives.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another outstanding novel from Dan Fesperman, 29 Aug 2003
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I read Lie in the Dark a number of years ago and thought it was excellent. It has been quite a wait for this new one. But well worth it. If anything, this new novel is even better than the first. It begins about five years after the close of the first novel and we find Vlado, now a Bosnian refugee, living in Berlin with his wife and child. An American visits him, asking him if he is willing to go back to Bosnia and help capture a war criminal from the Second World War. From this moment on we are led on a kind of odyssey, both a journey into the sadness and tragedy that epitomises Balkan history and a personal journey into Vlado's past and his family, especially his father. It is something of a rollercoaster ride. We are gripped by the exciting plot, moved by the various characters and their histories, horrified by the criminals. The ending is particularly remarkable. The story has been composed beautifully, with all its twists and turns, so that the ending is satisfying indeed. I have every admiration for Dan Fesperman. I wish that he could write two novels a year. Anyone who likes novels such as those by Henning Mankell, crime novels with depth, will like this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Book, 4 May 2004
This is the first book I've read by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The plot was interesting - an ex-policeman from Bosnia living in Berlin is recruited to help arrest an old Croatian accused of war crimes in WWII. Vlado Patric discovers there is more to the case than meets the eye. Somebody seems to be manipulating things behind the scenes but who and why? The story is well-written and holds the readers attention all the way through. The characters are interesting and intriguing in every sense of the word. I really enjoyed this book and will looking out for others by the same author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Taut, Exciting and Different, 26 Aug 2004
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I thoroughly enjoyed this pacey and exciting thriller/mystery. The genre is one that is full of clones and repeats, but The Small Boat of Great Sorrows combines strands of history I haven't come across before. The hero is a Bosnian ex-Police officer living as an exiled, poorly-paid manual labourer in Berlin. The surface of the book is consumed by that recent, bloody conflict, but the meat of the mystery harks back to the shards of the second world war. Fesperman skillfully weaves the plot so past and present collide driven by the selfish actions of individuals and institutions. Family relationships, professional rivalries and an almost Kafka-esque sense of the individual sucked powerless into greater events is all handled convincingly and the moral dimension is explored in an interesting way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent thriller
I thought this was an improvement on Fesperman's previous book, Lie in the Dark, that also features the Bosnian detective, Vlado Petric. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Overly Contrived Sequel
This sequel to Fesperman's excellent award-winning debut (Lie in the Dark) picks up Vlado Petric's story five years later, in 1998. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2005 by A. Ross

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