Bloody Marko

by J. Madison Davis

Now an old man, Marko Renovich is still sly enough to toy with the state prosecutor during his interrogation, insisting that he is not Bloody Marko, the infamous Serbian war criminal. Yet what may... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802711499
• ISBN13: 9780802711496
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

It's a difficult book, but ultimately a rewarding one

Since one of my all-time favorite books is Pretty Birds by Scott Simon, I cannot resist a novel about the former Yugoslavian republics. Unlike Birds, though, this one takes place before the 1990s civil war. Marko Renovich is an old man, finding himself put on trial for war crimes he committed in World War Two. (I don't doubt that this is based on the real-life story of John/Ivan Demjanjuk.) The story then progresses backwards, and we see what went into making Marko the old man he became. We see him as a middle-aged man, wrestling with the demons of the war. We go all the way back to his childhood in an almost medieval Serbian village, where his people were terrorized by Croatian soldiers during the first World War. It's a difficult book, but ultimately a rewarding one.