The Serbian Dane

Authors:
Leif Davidsen translated by Barbara J. Haveland

Description:
What it says on the cover

LISE CARLSEN: A successful arts journalist trying to smooth over the cracks in a failed marraiage.

PER TOFTLUND: A crack member of Denmark's secret service, a lone wolf: unattached, without family and fanatically committed to his work.

VUK: A highly skilled political assassin who has lost everything in the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Raised in Denmark of Serbian descent.

Vuk has swapped identities so many times in order to survive that he can no longer see himself as anything other than a highly efficient killing machine. His victims, however, hardly get to see him at all, and by then it is too late. They're already dead.

As plans are made for a controversial Iranian author to make a rare public appearance in Copenhagen, these three separate and lonely lives suddenly find themselves on a collision course with each other. Trapped in a world of secret deals and private passions, organized crime and uncontrolled media frenzy, LIse, Per and Vuk struggle to confront a tainted past, a compromised present and an extremely uncertain future. From its terse beginnings to its unnerving, blood splattered climax, Leif Davidsen has written a taut political thriller for the time we live in today.