The Serbian Dane

by Barbara J. Haveland, Leif Davidsen

Overview

Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her to Copenhagen, and police officer Per Toftlund of the Danish Secret Police is put in charge of protecting the author. A politician in parliament strikes a deal with dire consequences. And somewhere in the former Yugoslavia a young man signs up for murder. The man is Vuk. He is the Serbian Dane.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908129284
Publisher:	Quercus Publishing
Publication date:	07/24/2007
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	267
Sales rank:	762,395
File size:	342 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Leif Davidsen is a Danish author who worked as a journalist and then turned to become a full time writer. As a journalist, he was stationed in Spain and Russia before returning to become chief editor of Danmarks Radio's foreign news desk. He won the Danish booksellers Golden Laurel Award in 1991 for his novel The Last Spy.

Editorial Reviews

★ 11/24/2014
First published in 1996, Davidsen’s taut, disciplined thriller pits professional assassin Vuk, a Serbian raised in Denmark, against Det. Insp. Per Toftlund. Toftlund is charged with protecting Iranian dissident author Sara Santanda while she’s visiting Copenhagen. Sara has a $4 million price on her head after a fatwa is issued against her in her home country. Meanwhile, tough cop Toftlund falls hard for Lise Carlsen, the married arts reporter for a liberal newspaper. As the chair of Danish PEN, Carlsen seeks maximum publicity for Santanda while watching her marriage disintegrate. Davidsen skewers Denmark’s double-dealing politicians in his dissection of the Balkan ethnic cleansing that created the nightmare-obsessed (but eerily appealing) Vuk, who hopes killing Santanda will be his last assignment in the schizoid post–Cold War world. The author suggests that this appears to be about as likely as Denmark’s chances of repairing the cracks in its vaunted welfare state that some feel have come with immigration. (Jan.)

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