Dimensions
153 x 233 x 20mm
Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune that narrowly eluded them in the dotcom years; soaking up a huge dose of Reconstruction Money isn't the worst plan they've ever come up with. That's before they realise that Clare Leischman, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, is the best girl either of them has ever met, and that they can't both have her as much as they would each, ideally, like.
Meanwhile the city is awash with UN programmes, black marketeers, lawyers, soldiers both salaried and self-employed, poker hustlers, private enterprise initiatives, Machiavellian intelligence officers, and expat hedonists all high on Dayton money. And by the time our fortune-hunters have become actual soldiers of fortune, bounty-hunting men accused of war crimes, their own lives have taken on all the risk, craziness, and emotional upheaval, and very little of the money, that they'd bargained for.
The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money is a dysfunctional love story told hand-in-hand with stories of Sarajevan heroism and how the international justice business does, or doesn't, work.
A brilliantly original and funny new voice in fiction, it tackles love and war and the brutal costs of both, in all their madness, hilarity, and hurt.
