THE MONKEY HOUSE by John Fullerton

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With a clarity that is harp and painful, Fullertons first novel captures the emotions of small people trapped in a mad war: terror and privation, compassion and Balkan gallows humour. Given his narrative drive and masterly suspense, he has a very serious future Daily Telegraph

ROSSO is the Detective Inspector trying to find a murderer in a city at war with itself and under bitter siege

LUKA is the local crime boss exploiting the misery of the citys inhabitants while providing the only realistic defence they may have left

TANJA is the young woman loved by both men and faced by an agonizing conflict of loyalties

SARAJEVO is the abused, battered, but defiant Bosnian capital in which their dramatic story is played out

I wouldnt compare this to Gorky Park, I would compare it to Dantes Inferno. The mystery is, why arent there more books as good as this? The reason is that very few of us have been to places as dark as this, and John Fullerton has Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park

An exciting told story set against the nightmare of civil war. Someones got to film it Time Out

Paperback, 348 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of creasing to the spine.