The Eyewitness (Paperback, New ed)

Author of The Birthday Girl and The Long Shot among many others, Stephen Leather has gained great critical and popular acclaim for his outstanding thrillers, but he has yet to break into true bestsellerdom - a failing that this latest novel may well remedy. As in his earlier books, the action grows organically out of the narrative, and the overriding motif here is plausibility. Toiling in the shattered country that is Yugoslavia, ex-copper Jack Solomon's job is to give an identity to the victims of ethnic cleansing and to inform the grieving relatives. He has found a way of keeping the horrors at bay, but when a truck crammed full of corpses is recovered from a lake, Jack finds his grim imperturbability shaken. The only survivor of the massacre is a young girl, and as Jack tracks her down, the killers are similarly close on her trail. And the reasons for the mass killings lie not just in this war-torn country but far away in London, with prostitution organized via the Internet a key element in the equation. All the disparate elements here are admirably handled, with sharp characterization and gripping plotting, and it's to be hoped that the wider public will take notice. (Kirkus UK)

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 never coming home. Years of toiling 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 track down the only survivor of the massacre, a young girl on the run from the killers. Solomon's hunt for the last witness takes him from the brothels of Sarajevo to the high-stakes world of London's internet prostitution - where he will discover that the killers are closer to home than he thinks . . . ********* PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'A writer at the top of his game' Sunday Express 'In the top rank of thriller writers' Jack Higgins

General

Imprint:	Hodder Paperback
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	July 2003
Authors:	Stephen Leather
Dimensions:	178 x 113 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	407
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-340-73409-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > General Promotions
LSN:	0-340-73409-4
Barcode:	9780340734094

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