Rosso, an honest cop in wartorn Sarajevo, tries to solve the murder
of a police
informant. Meanwhile, the Serbs are attacking the city, his detectives
are
mostly corrupt or stoned, his wife is drinking anything she can get
her hands on
& his sort-of-adopted daughter is cavorting with a Croat strongman.
Fullerton was a foreign correspondent & covered the war in Bosnia.
He vividly
portrays the desperation of life in the war zone and the near lawlessness
of
Sarajevo adds additional tension to a fairly straightforward mystery.
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (B-)
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-- Toronto Sun)
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