Small Boat of Great Sorrows - Softcover

"Deft and gripping. . . . Impeccably written and ably plotted. . . . The action is more or less nonstop." --The New York Times Books Review

"A literary thriller with historical persepctive. . . . A relentlessly crackling mystery and adventure tale. . . Fesperson's prose is vivid, almost breakneck in pace. . . . His descriptions of people and places are crisp, precise and memorable." --The Baltimore Sun

"A modern-day Odyssey that leads its hero through the harrowing Kafkaesque lanscapes of postwar Bosnia and post-Cold War Europe . . . A literary detective novel that thrills as much as it evokes admiration for the prose." --The Charlotte Observer

"A keep-'em-guessing plot, littered with hidden treasures, international intrigue, lusty old Croatian thugs, and late-night crypt openings." --Entertainment Weekly

"A wonderful book. . . . Timely, thoughtful and vividly written." - The Seattle Times

"A new standard for war-based thrillers." - The Los Angeles Times
"A dark and morally complex novel." - The Daily Telegraph

"A haunting sense of place and enough twists and turns to make the reader giddy. . . . This is not an ordinary thriller and this is enforced by the precision and the quality of the writing. Fesperman's . . . first-hand experience of war reporting and exhaustive research shine through." - The Birmingham Post

"[An] ambitious, morally complex thriller." - The Observer

"Fesperman tells his atmospheric tale with great elegance . . . [and] a sharp analytical curiosity." - The Guardian

"[A] fine follow-up to the equally fine Lie in the Dark." - The Orlando Sentinel

"A well-paced tale of deceit, manipulation and double-crossing." - The Spectator

Dan Fesperman is a journalist for The Baltimore Sun 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 Lie in the Dark. 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.