The Small Boat of Great Sorrows -- Dan Fesperman, Paperback

The widely acclaimed author of Winter Work brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a "deft and gripping [thriller]. Impeccably written and ably plotted.... The action is more or less nonstop." (The New York Times Books Review).

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.

Author: Dan Fesperman
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/14/2004
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781400030477

About the Author
Dan Fesperman is a journalist for The Baltimore Sun and served in its Berlin bureau, covering Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia during their civil conflicts. He won the 1999 John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Lie in the Dark. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and now lives with his family in Baltimore, Maryland.