Title: Drift : Roman /
Authors: Bozikovic, Michel, 1971-
Publisher: Tropen,
Year: 2011
Abstract: "Julien, a second-generation Yugoslavian immigrant, was nineteen when he stole his mother{u2019}s car to drive to Croatia to fight and to give meaning to his life. Fiercely determined, he manages to get through to the front line, and the first clash with the enemy proves that he is a natural. Julien soon falls in love with Marina, another member of his squad. On a mission to kill a high-ranked Serbian officer Julien and Marina both get badly injured. After recovering sufficiently to leave hospital, Julien visits Marina at her home and they spend their one and only night together, both high on heroin. For him, it{u2019}s the first experience of hard drugs, but for Marina heroin has become the only way to cope with the unbearable pains of her injury. The next morning she is dead, killed by an overdose. Julien is devastated and cannot return to the fighting. He ends up becoming a drug runner to Switzerland, where years later he gets the chance to recount his story to Martin." -- New German Books.