Fesperman, Dan 1955-

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


Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)--Fiction


Mystery fiction

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