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Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone in the Balkans. He watches helplessly as a woman who sheltered him is set on fire. From then on his life is consumed by the mission to find the man who did it - caught on film by his friend and cameraman Jacek.
Drawing on his own experience of war zones, in this disturbing, thoughtful novel Michael Ignatieff probes into the damage that blights Charlie's life and threatens to destroy his humanity, the result of years of numbing reporting of terrible events. Charlie has people who love him, not only his wife and daughter at home in London, but also generous, tough and resolute colleagues like Jacek and the indefatigable and beautiful Etta. But once he is set on his journey of revenge, nothing and no one can stop him.
Drawing on his own experience of war zones, in this disturbing, thoughtful novel Michael Ignatieff probes into the damage that blights Charlie's life and threatens to destroy his humanity, the result of years of numbing reporting of terrible events. Charlie has people who love him, not only his wife and daughter at home in London, but also generous, tough and resolute colleagues like Jacek and the indefatigable and beautiful Etta. But once he is set on his journey of revenge, nothing and no one can stop him.
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"Charlie Johnson in the Flames is that good, belonging to the same order of thrillers by writers like Graham Greene, Len Deighton and Lionel Davidson" (Independent)
"A painfully believable novel about the human cost of war in the Balkans" (Lisa Jardine Sunday Times)
"Michael Ignatieff's cast of characters... are drawn to perfection" (Irish Times)
"Michael Ignatieff's third novel has a compressed, cinematic brilliance. You can read it in two hours, but the images it contains linger far longer than that...The texture of the novel marks this down as superior fiction" (Sunday Telegraph)
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"A painfully believable novel about the human cost of war in the Balkans" (Lisa Jardine Sunday Times)
"Michael Ignatieff's cast of characters... are drawn to perfection" (Irish Times)
"Michael Ignatieff's third novel has a compressed, cinematic brilliance. You can read it in two hours, but the images it contains linger far longer than that...The texture of the novel marks this down as superior fiction" (Sunday Telegraph)
A powerful literary thriller-come-revenge tragedy set in a Balkan warzone.
'A precise, perfectly-aimed probe into some of the hardest questions of our age, or any other... extraordinary' - Spectator
'A precise, perfectly-aimed probe into some of the hardest questions of our age, or any other... extraordinary' - Spectator
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- PublisherPenguin Books Canada
- Publication date2003
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- ISBN 13 9780670044313
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