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Reminiscent of The Third Man, a thriller by a former foreign correspondent follows a homicide investigator in wartorn Sarajevo as he tries to find the killer of a government official among the city's gangsters, snipers, and desperate bureaucrats. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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What is the point of investigating a single death when your city and your country is being killed around you? For Fesperman's Sarajevo sleuth, Investigator Petric, part of the answer is that being a homicide cop keeps him out of the army and out of the front line in the hills a few miles away, keeps him in the city where he can at least phone the wife and child he has sent to safety. And part of the answer is the simple bad attitude that he shares with most other heroes of noir detective fiction, a feeling that the job has to be done, no matter how many toes he treads on. The corpse, shot at close range and left to look like a sniper's victim, is that of a senior figure in the security service, a man who used the local gangs to save the city from the Serbs and then turned on them when they got ambitious. Petric finds himself fed information by people who use him and threaten him--secret policemen, gangsters, whores, foreign journalists and black marketeers. This is a powerful and ingenious thriller, drawn from last year's headlines, but as timely today. --Roz Kaveney
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Winner - Best First Crime Novel 1999
Lie in the Dark has won the Crime Writers Association JOHN CREASEY award for BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL of 1999
Lie in the Dark has won the Crime Writers Association JOHN CREASEY award for BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL of 1999
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0375707670
- ISBN 13 9780375707674
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages282
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