Winner of the John Creasey Award for the Best First Crime Novel 1999
Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily one premeditated death does land on the detective's desk. It is no abused lover or a distant sniper's victim but a government official - the chief of the interior ministry's police - shot dead at close range.
In a thriller that recalls the first excitement of Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow and the Vienna of Graham Greene's The Third Man, author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war - the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and very lives - and he weaves through this torn cityscape one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of the wrong people in the worst places.
- ISBN10 1901982688
- ISBN13 9781901982688
- Publish Date 1 August 2003 (first published 10 July 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
- Imprint No Exit Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL https://noexit.co.uk