"... (Solomon) reckoned that sitting in a car with an Albanian pimp, his bodyguard and two heavily armed Croatian
thugs on he way to a shoot-out in a Bosnian brothel would make anyone nervous." Such is the approaching moment of
truth for Jack Solomon, an investigator employed with the International War-dead Commission in the Balkans. Jack's
job is to coordinate the identification by DNA of the bodies of civilians killed in the ethnic cleansing atrocities
in Kosovo and Bosnia, and then notify surviving family members. Jack's latest case involves twenty-six Bosnian
Muslims - men, women and children from the same extended family - found locked in the back of a refrigerator truck
at the bottom of a lake. Death had been by suffocation some three years previous. But the chill of the lake had
preserved the bodies perfectly, and Solomon takes the presence among the dead of an eighteen-month old girl, still
clutching her teddy bear, hard. Further investigation indicates that one member of the clan survived, sixteen-year
old Nicoletta. Jack's self-imposed mission is to track her down so she can testify before the War Crimes Tribunal.
But the girl has run, apparently disappearing into the dark world of indentured prostitution. After Jack runs afoul
of one of the region's most vicious and powerful criminal bosses, his boss sends him back to the safety of London,
where, as chance would have it, Nicoletta is now an escort agency hooker.
About The Reader
Sean Barrett began his acting career as a child for the BBC and has since made numerous television appearances
including roles in Z Cars, Minder, Tales of the Unexpected and Father Ted. He played alongside Noel Coward in the
West End and has had film parts in War and Peace, Dunkirk and Sons and Lovers. Sean Barrett is fast becoming the
contemporary voice of Samuel Beckett on audiobook. After decades of proving himself one of the most versatile of
London-based readers . despite a natural Irish accent . with a range of books from Jack Higgins and William Trevor
to Robert Graves and Umberto Eco.s The Name of the Rose, Barrett has turned to Beckett.
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