Hi Jim -
I love Fesperman's work also and have a peice in his
work at
_www.therapsheet.blogspot.com_ (http://www.therapsheet.blogspot.com)
His last novel THE PRISONER OF GUANTANAMO was
excellent and won the Hammet last year -
_
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/reviews2006/reviews0906/guantanamo.html_
(
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/reviews2006/reviews0906/guantanamo.html)
And his latest THE AMATEUR SPY was released in the UK
last year / and is due for US release this spring
Best
Ali
_www.shotsmag.co.uk_ (http://www.shotsmag.co.uk)
_www.therapsheet.blogpsot.com_ (http://www.therapsheet.blogpsot.com)
- etc
In a message dated 09/01/2008 17:34:11 GMT Standard
Time,
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com writes:
That said, the best, fairly recent novel I read for the first
time was Dan Fesperman's THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS.
This was a sequel to his first novel, LIE IN THE DARK, which
I read in 2006.
Both books feature Vlado Petric, a Balkan policeman. In the
first he's a homicide detective in war-torn Sarajevo, living
alone because he's sent his family to Germany to wait out the
war, assigned to a investigate the murder of a high-ranking
cop. In the second, he's left the Balkans and rejoined his
wife and kid in Germany, when the UN War Crime Commission
offers him a temporary job as an investigator and assigns him
to return to his country to hunt down a WW2 Nazi.
Both books are excellent. Both are winners of CWA Daggers,
LIES won the Creasey Dagger for Best First Novel, and SMALL
BOATS the Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller.
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