Den serbiske dansker - Leif Davidsen

Title: Den serbiske dansker (The Serbian Dane) Author: Leif Davidsen Genre: Suspense Rating: 7/10 # pages: 244 Date read: July, 2008

Summary: Iranian imams have promised a reward of 4 million American dollars to whoever executes their fatwa, death warrent on the author Sandra Santanda. The Russian mafia want that money and hire the Danish-Serbian hitman Vuk to commit the murder when Santanda visits Copenhagen.
It is now up to crime detective Per Toftlund to prevent the catastrophy.

Review: I've long wanted to read more Danish novels, and Leif Davidsen is one of the bigger names in later years, so I thought he was an obvious place to start. I rather like his writing style, but thought the book was a bit slow starting - possibly because he spent quite awhile introducing the different characters. Something he did really well as they all worked, and especially Vuk was very intriguing, so I may just have to read some of the other works featuring him.

I wish I knew more about the Yugoslavian civil war though. It shames me that I know so little about something so close, something so recent and something so major.

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