Dan is a war correspondent in Bosnia, a stringer and a loner, a truthteller up to a point, careless with everything except his sources. This is a novel about transgressing moral, personal, ethical and social boundaries with tragic results - as a translator at the War Crimes tribunal gets close to a journalist who reports from former Yugoslavia.

Born in Liverpool, Maggie Helwig grew up in London and Kingston, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto. A writer and poet, she has worked as a music journalist, and an international human rights advocate, and travelled in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and elsewhere in Europe, as well as South America. She is married with one daughter.