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1990s: A Deadly Game Played In The World’s Most Dangeous City – Sarajevo
Into Hell’s Fire
What you need to know before your trail
Lucas Martin, a retired agent of the U.S. government, is recalled to duty to assist the U.S. State Department in deciding its Balkan policy at the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo. Hired to accumulate accurate intelligence and monitor the crisis as it unfolds, little time passes before he is ensnared in a game of life and death with a sinister, Yugoslav general. Crossing regional borders, flanking battle lines, and dodging sniper fire while Lucas fights for his survival, the stakes soon rise until the two opponents meet in a final standoff where there can be only one winner.
Locations
Reset- Balkans - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- A: Sarajevo - train station
- B: Sarajevo City Hall
- C: Mlade Bosne museum
- D: Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide
- Croatia
- E: Zagreb - centre
- F: Gradiška
Travel Guide
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Croatia
Douglas Cavanaugh travelled many times to the Balkans in the 1990s. He arrived in Croatia in 1996, not long after the country’s Homeland War had ended, and just after the final shots in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina had been fired. It was his earliest memories of Croatia’s war-ravaged countryside that inspired the background for this novel.
Cavanaugh’s daily contact with many veterans and civilians demonstrated other ramifications of war that might have otherwise remained unrealized. “By the end of that decade,” he remarked in an interview, “post-traumatic stress syndrome was epidemic. Many people I met had immediate family members who had been killed. Countless others had been separated from their families and friends who had been relocated to other parts of the world. That sort of a forced separation can be brutal on an individual. And more than a few people told me how they had lost everything they owned, and how it all seemed to have happened overnight. Thankfully, a state of normalcy has returned to the region in recent years, though the local economies are still on the mend. Many other wounds will need more time to heal. I was quite naive as to how the world really works when I first arrived. Living abroad has been a fantastic, eye-opening experience for me that I would recommend to anyone who is contemplating it – though it’s not for everyone,” Cavanaugh noted.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Into Hell’s Fire
Destination: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Croatia Author/guide: Douglas Cavanaugh Departure Time: 1990s
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