This is one of those books that I've had sitting on MtTBR for a long time, so I was very pleased to finally get a chance to pick it up.
From the Blurb:
Vuk has swapped identities so many times in order to survive that he can no longer see himself as anything other than a highly efficient killing machine. His victims, however, hardly get to see him at all, and by then it's too late. They're already dead.
Opening Lines:
Franji Draskuvic, writer and philosopher, was a happy man. He was well-pleased with himself and his carefully tended beard, with the late summer sunshine in which his fine city of Zagreb looked as lovely as a young maiden, and with the fact that the powerful new Croatia army had finally driven back the fucking Serbs out of Krajina.
LISE CARLSEN: A successful journalist trying to smooth over the cracks in a failed marriage.
PER TOFTLUND: A crack member of Denmark's secret service, a lone wolf: unattached, without family and fanatically committed to his work.
VUK: a highly skilled political assassin who has lost everything in the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Raised in Denmark of Serbian descent.
Vuk has swapped identities so many times in order to survive that he can no longer see himself as anything other than a highly efficient killing machine. His victims, however, hardly get to see him at all, and by then it's too late. They're already dead.