Leeches

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A thrilling adventure into an underground world of secret societies and conspiracy theories. A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...

Reviews

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history -- Claire Allfree * Metro *
A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies * Die Zeit *
Kafka for our times * Neue Zrcher Zeitung *
Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Littraire *

Author Bio

David Albahari was born in Serbia and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of eleven novels and nine collections of short stories. His previous novel, G tz and Meyer, was published in English and won the ALTA Translation Award. A story of his was recently selected for Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksandar Hemon.