by ThomasLeveritt (Author)
Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dot-com years. For a while it seems that soaking up reconstruction money isn't the worst plan ever. But then they both meet Clare, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, and they both realise she is the best person they've has ever met, and that they can't both have her as much as they would, ideally, like. Meanwhile the city is overrun by black marketeers, poker hustlers, intelligence officers, and expat hedonists all high on Dayton money. By the time Frito and Bannerman have started bounty hunting men accused of war crimes, their lives have taken on all the risk - but very little of the money - that they'd bargained for...Winner of the Betty Trask Award.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0099513455
ISBN 13: 9780099513452
Book Overview: A fantastic first novel: an incredibly energetic, funny, bitterly satirical, triangular love story set in the city of Sarajevo. Winner of the Betty Trask Award.
Prizes: Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2009.