Charlie Johnson in the Flames (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802141828)

In his critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Michael Ignatieff tells a story of striking contemporary relevance that has drawn comparisons to the novels of Graham Greene and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers. Charlie Johnson is an American journalist working for a British news agency somewhere in the Balkans. He believes that over the course of a long career he has seen everything, but suddenly he finds himself more than simply a witness. A woman who has been sheltering Charlie and his crew is doused in gasoline and set on fire by a retreating Serbian colonel. As she stumbles, burning, down the road, Charlie dashes from hiding, throws her down rolling her over and over to extinguish the flames, burning his hands in the process. Believing the woman's life to have been saved, Charlie is traumatized by her death. Something snaps. He now realizes he has just one ambition left in life: to find the colonel and kill him.

Author: Michael Ignatieff
ISBN-10: 080214182X
ISBN-13: 9780802141828
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2004
Pages: 179
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.52w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 67
New York Times 03/06/2005 pg. 24