Mike was born on 26 March 1950 at Strathfield, Sydney, Australia. His mother pretended marriage; his father had died nine months earlier. Mike is an only child. When Mike was eight, his mother died. His aunt adopted him and moved him to Wollongong, fifty miles south of Sydney. She was single, childless and a headmistress at an infant school. Back in Sydney, Mike worked for years in the Australian government Department of Defence, mainly as a civilian analyst of Navy Air Force battle exercises. He retired in 2005. He is single and lives with Tom, his cat.
In this novel, by October 1991 war in western Croatia between Croats and Serbs is daily and deadly. Navenka Berik, a wimpy 25-year-old Serb mother of two has had her Serb parents and her Croat husband make decisions for her. During the next few months:- Her father is taken and presumed killed,- Nave...
