The Eyewitness

by Stephen Leather Narrated by Seán Barrett

Overview

Jack Solomon is a messenger of death. Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia, his task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing and to tell families that their loved ones are gone. Years of working in the killing fields have desensitised the former London policeman to the horrors of war, but when a truck containing twenty-six bodies is pulled from a lake, Solomon is unable to walk away from the case. He sets out to find the only survivor of the massacre, a young girl on the run from the killers. From the brothels of Sarajevo to the high-stakes world of internet prostitution, Solomon discovers that the killers are closer to home than he thinks . . .

Editorial Reviews

APR/MAY 05 - AudioFile

Sean Barrett begins his narration of this disturbing novel in a sonorous, mourning tone. Without care for delicate sensibilities, he moves the listener into a story of ethnic genocide in Sarajevo, drug trafficking, and prostitution in which young girls are auctioned as commodities. Barrett’s expert portrayals of an ex-vice squad detective from London, a beer-swilling Bosnian cop, a Russian mafia pimp, a 19-year-old who witnessed her family being loaded into a truck and driven into a Bosnian lake, and numerous Albanian gangsters are so believably presented that the reader might, with fear of confirming it, be driven to check the referenced Web sites. K.A.T. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177383071
Publisher:	Isis Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	05/01/2003
Edition description:	Unabridged

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