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In late June 2014, at the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the heir to the Habsburg throne, Solomon Birnbaum, a secular Jewish Senator from Vienna, delivers a keynote address near the site of the crime, in Sarajevo. In it he assails the continuing political deadlock in Bosnia and Herzegovina and poses the question what the world has really learned since the start of World War I. Soon after, Birnbaum gets kidnapped. Other kidnappings follow and journalist Alois Hofer and his Bosnian and US colleagues Emir and Stanley, have to report a rapid succession of political...

This political political thriller was completed in 1995, long before 9/11, the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement. The book foreshadows all three and is more topical now than when it was written, given recent developments in Northern Africa and South-West Asia. The main characters in this novel are a coloured German journalist, who is sent to Tunesia to report on the murder of an elderly German woman, allegedly by a Tunesian boy; a beautiful woman painter from New York, who is looking for the murderer of her sister, who was involved in the drugs trade; a wealthy retired US diplomat who...