The Small Boat of Great Sorrows: A Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

"Deft and gripping. . . . Impeccably written and ably plotted. . . . The action is more or less nonstop." --The New York Times Books Review

"A literary thriller with historical perspective. . . . A relentlessly crackling mystery and adventure tale. . . Fesperman's prose is vivid, almost breakneck in pace. . . . His descriptions of people and places are crisp, precise and memorable." --The Baltimore Sun

"A modern-day Odyssey that leads its hero through the harrowing Kafkaesque lanscapes of postwar Bosnia and post-Cold War Europe . . . A literary detective novel that thrills as much as it evokes admiration for the prose." --The Charlotte Observer

"A keep-'em-guessing plot, littered with hidden treasures, international intrigue, lusty old Croatian thugs, and late-night crypt openings." --Entertainment Weekly

"A wonderful book. . . . Timely, thoughtful and vividly written." -The Seattle Times

"A new standard for war-based thrillers." -The Los Angeles Times

"A dark and morally complex novel." -The Daily Telegraph

"A haunting sense of place and enough twists and turns to make the reader giddy. . . . This is not an ordinary thriller and this is enforced by the precision and the quality of the writing. Fesperman's . . . first-hand experience of war reporting and exhaustive research shine through." -The Birmingham Post

"[An] ambitious, morally complex thriller." -The Observer

"Fesperman tells his atmospheric tale with great elegance . . . [and] a sharp analytical curiosity." -The Guardian

"[A] fine follow-up to the equally fine Lie in the Dark." -The Orlando Sentinel

"A well-paced tale of deceit, manipulation and double-crossing." -The Spectator

After leaving his homeland in Bosnia, investigator Vlado Petric finds himself embroiled in proceedings of the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague and suspects that he is being used as bait to draw out mass murderers from World War II. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.