Small Boat Of Great Sorrows, The

Vlado Petric, former detective in war, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches a meagre living in the building sites. So when one night an American investigator approaches him to return to Croatia, it doesn't take long for him to accept. Little does he know, he is the bait. Author Biography: Is a reporter for the Baltimore Sun and worked in its Berlin bureau during the years of civil war in former Yugoslavia, as well as in Afghanistan during the recent conflict for the paper. His first novel, Lie in the Dark, won the CWA John Creasey award for best first crime novel in 1999 and his second novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, won the 2003 CWA Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year. His new novel, The Warlord's Son is published by Bantam Press.