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The Monkey House - John Fullerton

Description: ISBN 0593041089 / Genre: Fiction / Author: John Fullerton / Paperback / 288 Pages / Book is published 1996-06-01 by Bantam Press

Newest Review: ... starts to piece together what happened. When a surprise witness emerges, Rosso hatches a plan and enlists the help of an ... more

... American journalist who is looking for the story that will make his name. Rosso doesn't care so much about furthering a hack's career but the man could provide him with a way of getting what he needs, and at the same time he can show the world that there is some humanity left in Sarajevo. This story is very much a story of besieged Sarajevo. It's what explains the apathy of the police officers who have no interest in investigating the death of someone they have been persuaded is the "enemy". The people who ru...more

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The Monkey House - John Fullerton: Suspense in Sarajevo (984 words)
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Rosso is a senior police detective in besieged Sarajevo. You would think things couldn't get much worse for him. Like everyone else in the city he is cold and hungry. On top of that his wife is an alcoholic who has sold practically everything the couple own to fund her habit, his god daughter has taken up with one of the most dangerous men in Sarajevo and his job has become almost impossible as police authority over the city has virtually disintegrated. Then Rosso starts to investigate the brutal murder of a drug addict, a Serbian woman whose body is found in an apartment in a block of flats known as the Monkey House (a derogatory name used by the city's ... Read the complete review