The Wolf of Sarajevo
Matthew Palmer, a career State Department officer, writes diplomatic thrillers with insider authority. Here, Eric Petrosian, a foreign service veteran haunted by his time in Bosnia in the 1990s, takes a posting back in Sarajevo as new fault lines crack open. A nationalist politician with ties to wartime atrocities is rising, paramilitary networks are rearming, and a journalist friend turns up dead. Petrosian's task is to keep the country from sliding back into the war he barely survived. Palmer knows the cafes and corridors of Sarajevo, the Dayton-era diplomatic architecture, and the bureaucratic infighting at Foggy Bottom, and it shows. The thriller mechanics are competent, but the real pleasure is the texture, the sense of a region that never quite finished its last war. A solid pick for fans of literate political fiction.
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A US diplomat returns to Bosnia and finds that a war criminal he helped indict is back in play.
The Wolf of Sarajevo was written by Matthew Palmer, published in 2016 by Putnam Publishing Group, U.S..
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