Hunting the Tiger: The Fast Life and Violent Death of the Balkans' Most Dangerous Man
Advance Praise forHunting the Tiger“Starting with his own heart-pounding train trip through Serbia in the late 1990s, Christopher S. Stewart launches the reader into the dark, bloody world of Serb paramilitaries.Hunting the Tigeris a fast, terrifying read that manages to penetrate one of the most violent and secretive organizations in the world. I don’t know how he did it. . . . I’m just glad it wasn’t me.”---Sebastian Junger, author ofThe Perfect Storm“An altogether irresistible story about a totally repellent man. Christopher S. Stewart’s great achievement is to help us understand how a man so ruthless, savage, and worthless as Arkan could dazzle and excite so many people in his wounded, twisted nation. You keep turning the pages through amazing stories about mad heists, lust, greed, and massacres, shaking your head and wondering how this could have gone on, not so long ago or far away.”---Scott Simon, National Public Radio, author ofPretty Birds“In a book that combines meticulous investigative journalism with the tone of a well-written thriller, Christopher S. Stewart charts the astonishing rise and fall of ‘Arkan the Tiger,’ one of the most infamous of modern war criminals. In the process, he has cast a brilliant light onto an ominous phenomenon that is occurring in many of today’s war zones: the blurring of the line between ‘patriot’ and gangster, soldier and psychopath. His book should be essential reading not only for those who wish to understand what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s, but for anyone seeking to grasp why the ‘modern’ battlefield has become so savage.”---Scott Anderson, author ofMoonlight Hotel“In the groundbreakingHunting the Tiger, author Christopher S. Stewart has done the impossible in uncovering the secret truth that lies behind the hall-of-mirrors life of gangster, folk hero, assassin, and international war criminal Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic. Part gripping biography, part white-knuckle investigation, it reads as a pure thrill ride as the reader follows Stewart as he tracks down and finally reveals the true face of one of history’s most awesomely terrifying villains.”---John Falk, author ofHello to All That