Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
Vlado Petric is a homicide investigator in war-torn Sarajevo. When he encounters an unidentified body near sniper alley, he realizes that it is the body of Esmir Vitas, chief of the Interior Ministry's special police, and that Vitas has been killed not by any sniper's aim but by a bullet fired at almost pointblank range. Searching for the killer in this city of murderers, Petric finds himself drawn into a conspiracy, the scope of which goes beyond anything he could possibly have imagined. Lie in the Dark brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war--the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, the drop-in foreign correspondents, and the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and very lives. It weaves through this torn cityscape the alienation and terror of one man's desperate and deadly pursuit of bad people in an even worse place.
a rare wartime thriller -- Dante Ramos * New York Times *
A quite astonishing first novel..If Fesperman had taken me any closer to the action I'd be demanding a flak jacket....This is a humane and moving book, a great war novel, a great crime novel. A great novel period -- Ian Rankin
This is the story of the investigation of a murder, but it's also a wonderful portrayal of a city at war and one of the best books I've read in a long time * Sunday Telegraph *
Crime novel, war novel, modern historical novel - it's a winner on every count -- MGS * Barcelona Review *
A story of one man's desperate struggle to hang on to his integrity, Fesperman's unflinching portrait of the grim realities of ethnic conflict and the corruption that appears to be all that is capable of flourishing places this novel firmly in the territory of Graham Greene and John Le Carre. An impressive debut -- Val McDermid * Tangled Web *
A quite astonishing first novel..If Fesperman had taken me any closer to the action I'd be demanding a flak jacket....This is a humane and moving book, a great war novel, a great crime novel. A great novel period -- Ian Rankin
This is the story of the investigation of a murder, but it's also a wonderful portrayal of a city at war and one of the best books I've read in a long time * Sunday Telegraph *
Crime novel, war novel, modern historical novel - it's a winner on every count -- MGS * Barcelona Review *
A story of one man's desperate struggle to hang on to his integrity, Fesperman's unflinching portrait of the grim realities of ethnic conflict and the corruption that appears to be all that is capable of flourishing places this novel firmly in the territory of Graham Greene and John Le Carre. An impressive debut -- Val McDermid * Tangled Web *
Dan Fesperman's travels as a writer have taken him to 30 countries and three war zones, including the Persian Gulf War in 1991. His introductory trip to the besieged city of Sarajevo in January 1994 inspired Lie in the Dark. As a journalist he worked at the Miami Herald and The Sun of Baltimore.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842439456 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842439456 |
| Title | Lie in the Dark |
| Author | Dan Fesperman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2012-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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