Rosso is the Detective Inspector trying to find a brutal murderer in the heart of a Balkan city ravaged by war. He has learnt to take each day as it comes, with bullets, violence and death around every corner. Luka is Sarajevo's crime boss, intent on exploiting the misery of his city's inhabitants while also providing the only means of defence they have left. Tanja is the young woman loved, and set up, by both men and faced with an impossible conflict of loyalties. Flett is the foreign reporter, a U.S. citizen who hears and sees it all, partially protected by his job, but like the others, sucked in to the mire that is Sarajevo, once an elegant capital, now a battered but defiant place torn apart by a civilisation that has turned on itself. `'With a clarity that is sharp and painful, Fullerton's 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 '`Fullerton captures the grit and dust of the imploding city beautifully'' Observer

The Monkey House

Literature & Fiction

JOHN FULLERTON

Contemporary

Pan/Macmillan

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bantam Books Ltd

Genre Fiction

BANTAM PRESS

White Boys Don't Cry

Macmillan

Sarajevo is a war-torn city, full of hungry, cold, frightened people. American journalist Branston Flett is on hand to record it all with arrogant bravado. Amidst the chaos, Police Superintendent Rosso and his staff must solve a murder. A young woman, a police informant, is found dead in "The Monkey House" a Serbian apartment complex. The crime resembles that of a powerful Bosnian mafioso warlord and black marketeer, Luka - a man that Rosso is determined to ruin - and he needs Flett as a witness. For Rosso, a Croat whose alcoholic Serbian wife is slipping deeper into despair and whose Muslim goddaughter may be having an affair with Luka, this case hits too close to home. "The Monkey House" is a spine chilling thriller in the style of John LeCarre and Martin Cruz Smith's "Gorky Park". John Fullerton was born in Dorchester, England. As a journalist he has covered twelve wars, spending most to his time in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Bosnia.

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<p>In The Monkey House, Sarajevo is a city besieged by the atrocities of war. Stadium walls that once shook with the roar of Olympic crowds have since collapsed under the screams of artillery. Police Superintendent Rosso and the ragtag remains of his Sarajevo police force, however, remain dedicated to preserving what is left of the city's civil order. In their Sisyphean quest to uphold the law, one of their key informants is mysteriously murdered in a narcotics-infected Serb apartment complex called the "Monkey House." If the homicide is proven to be the work of Sarajevo's notorious crime boss, Luka, solving the case could break the black marketeer's grip on the city. But bringing Luka to justice could also drastically change the course of this relentless war and quite possibly lead to the fall of Sarajevo. For Rosso, a Croat whose Serbian wife is losing a battle with alcoholism and whose Moslem goddaughter may be having an affair with Luka, this case has become a life mission, not only to defeat a formidable enemy and to save his family and city, but also to redeem his own dark and bloody legacy. In The Monkey House the stakes are high for solving a wartime murder, and a young, cocky American journalist named Branson Flett is there to report it all.</p>

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