The Butcher's Trail

[A] vivid, page-turning account...A well-organized, deeply researched work that ably digests the Balkan war, the criminals, the criminal court, and its legacy. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Gripping. The Independent Well researched...timely. The Wall Street Journal The Butcher s Trail create[s] what may ultimately become one of the defining accounts of this episode of Balkan history. The National Borger s compelling, readable prose with these stories of assault on impunity offer a rare opportunity to penetrate the 'nationalist bromides' and 'sounds of slogans' that continue to hold these countries back in ways that are tragic in all sorts of new, post-war ways...Fascinating. The Arts Fuse Presented in captivatingdetail[and] often playing out like a true-life spy novel...fascinating. Library Journal Vivid...well-researched. Publishers Weekly Asimultaneously thrilling and horrifying read. Signature A well-researched, sobering chronicle...a necessary and admirable achievement. Washington Independent Review of Books The Butcher s Trail takes an immediate place on the short shelf of indispensable books about the Milosevic war and its long and complicated aftermath. Borger s vivid prose and closely-channelled moral involvement give his account a memorable power. Living history is seldom written this well. Open Letters Monthly The Butcher s Trail reads like a cross between a John le Carre novel and the latest Bourne installment. Except this fine book is true. At a time when Europe s ugly nationalisms are resurgent, Borger s account of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and the pursuit of justice could not be more important. Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus accident, and the Illusion of Safety Julian Borger reveals in riveting new detail exactly how a daring team secretly tracked down some of the worst war criminals of our time, and in doing, he shows us what it takes for justice to win. This book is brilliantly researched, beautifully written and important. Ann Curry Julian Borger s thrilling history of the hunt for the infamous Balkan war criminals Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic among them euphemisms for late 20th Century evil and the torturous path to creating and empowering the International Criminal Tribunal is not just masterfully told, but devastating in its revelations of complacency in the face of ethnic cleansing. Hooman Majd, author of NYTimes bestseller TheAyatollah Begs to Differ, among other books and writings. Julian Borger has written the definitive account of the hunt for the war criminals of the former Yugoslavia. The Butcher s Trail is wonderfully well written and deeply reported and it raises important questions about how to bring to justice those that have committed wars against humanity. Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad. Julian Borger has unlocked the hidden stories of a historic manhunt. This book is a powerful page turner that catapults you through two decades of political intrigue, deceit, and erratic leadership, competing intelligence agencies, botched operations with fugitive deaths, and then a steady surge of successful snatches on remote mountain roads and in sleepy villages, in warm apartments stocked with weaponry, and unawares at a Spanish restaurant with barely sipped wine. Borger proves the worth of the tribunal and those who delivered the agents of evil to its doorstep. David Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and law professor at Northwestern University