{"product_id":"the-small-boat-of-great-sorrows","title":"The Small Boat of Great Sorrows","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe widely acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eWinter Work\u003c\/i\u003e brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a \"deft and gripping [thriller]. Impeccably written and ably plotted.... The action is more or less nonstop.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Books Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working at a Berlin construction site, when an American investigator for the International War Crimes Tribunal recruits him to return home on a mission. The assignment sounds simple enough. He is to help capture an aging Nazi collaborator who has become a war profiteer. But nothing is simple in the Balkans: Petric is also being used as bait to lure his quarry into the open, and when the operation goes sour he is drawn across Europe into a dangerous labyrinth of secret identities, stolen gold, and horrifying discoveries about his own family's past.","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947298685159,"sku":"9781400030477","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_06076bfa-50e1-4522-b798-2568bf7d043b.jpg?v=1775486284","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-small-boat-of-great-sorrows","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}