{"product_id":"the-small-boat-of-great-sorrows-9781400030477","title":"The Small Boat of Great Sorrows","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe widely acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eWinter Work\u003c\/i\u003e brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a \"deft and gripping [thriller]. Impeccably written and ably plotted.... The action is more or less nonstop.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Books Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working at a Berlin construction site, when an American investigator for the International War Crimes Tribunal recruits him to return home on a mission. The assignment sounds simple enough. He is to help capture an aging Nazi collaborator who has become a war profiteer. But nothing is simple in the Balkans: Petric is also being used as bait to lure his quarry into the open, and when the operation goes sour he is drawn across Europe into a dangerous labyrinth of secret identities, stolen gold, and horrifying discoveries about his own family's past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Fesperman is a journalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and served in its Berlin bureau, covering Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia during their civil conflicts. He won the 1999 John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for \u003cb\u003eLie in the Dark\u003c\/b\u003e. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and now lives with his family in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504352301330,"sku":"9781400030477","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a244b51c-d140-46b0-b211-5578a7525bd8.jpg?v=1730817396","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-small-boat-of-great-sorrows-9781400030477","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}