The small boat of great sorrows : a novel /
Dan Fesperman
- New York : Vintage Books : Distributed by Random House, 2003
- 307 p. ; 21 cm.
- Vlado Petric #2 .
Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working at a Berlin construction site, when an American investigator for the International War Crimes Tribunal recruits him to return home on a mission. The assignment sounds simple enough. He is to help capture an aging Nazi collaborator who has become a war profiteer. But nothing is simple in the Balkans: Petric is also being used as bait to lure his quarry into the open, and when the operation goes sour he is drawn across Europe into a dangerous labyrinth of secret identities, stolen gold, and horrifying discoveries about his own family’s past.
English
Winner of The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award
9781400030477
Private investigators--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo--Fiction