The Small Boat of Great Sorrows -- Dan Fesperman

<b>The widely acclaimed author of <i>Winter Work</i> 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." (<i>The New York Times Books Review</i>). <br></b><br> 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Dan Fesperman<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 09/14/2004<br><b>Pages:</b> 320<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.75lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781400030477<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Dan Fesperman is a journalist for <i>The Baltimore Sun</i> 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 f