THE WOLF OF SARAJEVO

A riveting new standalone novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer.

Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian finds himself back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control… and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling the strings.

As Eric is dragged deeper into the political maelstrom and uncovers a plot of blackmail and ruthless ambitions, he is faced with an impossible choice: use the information he’s uncovered to achieve atonement for the past, or use it to shape the future.

Matthew Palmer is a twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, currently serving as the director for multilateral affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was formerly stationed in the U.S. embassy in Belgrade. A life member of the Council of Foreign Relations, Palmer has worked as a diplomat all over the world. While on the secretary of state’s policy-planning staff, Palmer helped design and implement the Kimberley Process for certifying African diamonds as “conflict-free.” He is the author of two previous standalone thrillers, The American Mission (Putnam, June 2014) and Secrets of State (Putnam, May 2015).