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Title: The Monkey House

Author: John Fullerton

Narrator: J. Charles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Sarajevo is a city besieged by the atrocities of war. Stadium walls that once shook with the roar of Olympic crowds have since collapsed under the screams of artillery. Police Superintendent Rosso and the ragtag remains of his Sarajevo police force, however, remain dedicated to preserving what is left of the city's civil order.

In their Sisyphean quest to uphold the law, one of their key informants is mysteriously murdered in a narcotics-infected Serb apartment complex called the "Monkey House". If the homicide is proven to be the work of Sarajevo's notorious crime boss, Luka, solving the case could break the black marketeer's grip on the city. But bringing Luka to justice could also drastically change the course of this relentless war and quite possibly lead to the fall of Sarajevo.

For Rosso, a Croat whose Serbian wife is losing a battle with alcoholism and whose Moslem goddaughter may be having an affair with Luka, this case has become a life mission, not only to defeat a formidable enemy and to save his family and city, but also to redeem his own dark and bloody legacy.

In The Monkey House, the stakes are high for solving a wartime murder, and a young, cocky American journalist named Branson Flett is there to report it all.

Critic Reviews:

"A powerful, timely first novel." (Publishers Weekly)

"A first-rate debut thriller, with harrowing detail showing the limits of a memorable man and his ruined city." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Fullerton, a Reuters reporter, steers clear of trying to explain the Bosnian conflict. Instead, he brings it to life through the hardships and dangers his characters accept as daily routine." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Strongly recommended

I really enjoyed this book. The writing is fantastic. The author does a great job of portraying the desperation and hopelessness of a country at war and the people who exploit it for financial gain. I don't really understand why these people were fighting because I'm American. We have learned to live somewhat peacefully with others who look different , come from other places and believe in different things. Books like the Monkey House teach me to treasure what I have here in the U.S. It may not always be perfect here but it could be a hell of a lot worse.

Good fictionalized account

I had my doubts about a detective story being set in wartime Sarajevo, but Fullerton pulled it off with flying colors. He used his experiences as a correspondent during the war to create the setting for this novel about a detective investigating a brutal murder in a city under siege. The story is also loosely based on the Bosnian government's actual crackdown on Sarajevo's warlord militia leaders in late 1993. Fullerton weaves a fantastic story which brilliantly depicts some of the many aspects of wartime Sarajevo: the multiethnic character of the city and the fraying of interethnic tolerance as the war dragged on, the hardship and gruelling monotony of daily life and survival in Sarajevo, the blurring of lines between good and evil as the leaders of Sarajevo's prewar criminal underworld became its chief wartime defenders, the voyeuristic role played by foreign correspondents in the city, etc. All of this is adeptly merged with the story, so "The Monkey House" never falls into extended preachy tracts or historical discourse.