The Quest For Radovan Karadzic by Nick Hawton
For more than a decade Europe's most wanted man, Radovan Karadzic, evaded the combined efforts of western intelligence agencies, NATO peacekeepers and Hague investigators and maverick bounty hunters to track him down. He travelled around with apparent impunity, even making public appearances on TV in his new personae as a guru of alternative medicine. When everybody else seemed to have given the hunt, one journalist doggedly followed his trail, travelling from the snow-capped mountains of Montenegro to the killing the fields of eastern Bosnia to the corridors of power in Belgrade, in search of the man accused of some of the most horrific crimes committed in Europe since the Second World War. On his journey into the dark heart of Balkan politics and crime, he met secret intelligence agents who tried to recruit him, got to know the Karadzic family in their home in Bosnia and interviewed the Serbian politicians who held the levers of power. And he met the widows who had lost everything in the maelstrom of the Bosnian war that Radovan Karadzic had helped to spark. He uncovered a tale of intrigue, murder, betrayal, spies, dirty deals, international politics and innocent victims. It was a quest that brought him face to face with the personal tragedy of others and the black humour that so often accompanied it. Ultimately, it was to make him question the whole nature of his profession. This is a rare journey through the looking glass, into the murky world of international politics and espionage, concerning one of the darker episodes of recent history.
Nick Hawton was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in the former Yugoslavia between 2002-08. He has written extensively on war crimes issues, including the case of Radovan Karadzic, for the BBC and for The Times. He graduated in Modern History from Oxford University and currently lives in Sarajevo with his wife and young daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091925680 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091925681 |
| Title | The Quest For Radovan Karadzic |
| Author | Nick Hawton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2009-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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