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What is the point of investigating a single death when your city and your country is being killed around you? For Fesperman's Sarajevo sleuth, Investigator Petric, part of the answer is that being a homicide cop keeps him out of the army and out of the front line in the hills a few miles away, keeps him in the city where he can at least phone the wife and child he has sent to safety. And part of the answer is the simple bad attitude that he shares with most other heroes of noir detective fiction, a feeling that the job has to be done, no matter how many toes he treads on. The corpse, shot at close range and left to look like a sniper's victim, is that of a senior figure in the security service, a man who used the local gangs to save the city from the Serbs and then turned on them when they got ambitious. Petric finds himself fed information by people who use him and threaten him--secret policemen, gangsters, whores, foreign journalists and black marketeers. This is a powerful and ingenious thriller, drawn from last year's headlines, but as timely today. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Investigator Petric makes his living from thedead. Lately business has been slow, what with thesiege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing hasdisplaced the crime of passion; his services withthe civil police as a homicide investigator havebeen less in demand. Unluckily one premeditateddeath does land on the detective's desk - that ofthe chief of the interior ministry's police - shotdead at close range. Brilliantly rendering theunderworld of Sarajevo at war, this thrillerfollows one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of thewrong people in the worst places.
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What is the point of investigating a single death when your city and your country is being killed around you? For Fesperman's Sarajevo sleuth, Investigator Petric, part of the answer is that being a homicide cop keeps him out of the army and out of the front line in the hills a few miles away, keeps him in the city where he can at least phone the wife and child he has sent to safety. And part of the answer is the simple bad attitude that he shares with most other heroes of noir detective fiction, a feeling that the job has to be done, no matter how many toes he treads on. The corpse, shot at close range and left to look like a sniper's victim, is that of a senior figure in the security service, a man who used the local gangs to save the city from the Serbs and then turned on them when they got ambitious. Petric finds himself fed information by people who use him and threaten him--secret policemen, gangsters, whores, foreign journalists and black marketeers. This is a powerful and ingenious thriller, drawn from last year's headlines, but as timely today. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Investigator Petric makes his living from thedead. Lately business has been slow, what with thesiege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing hasdisplaced the crime of passion; his services withthe civil police as a homicide investigator havebeen less in demand. Unluckily one premeditateddeath does land on the detective's desk - that ofthe chief of the interior ministry's police - shotdead at close range. Brilliantly rendering theunderworld of Sarajevo at war, this thrillerfollows one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of thewrong people in the worst places.
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