Frederick Forsyth · 2003 · thriller

Frederick Forsyth's 2003 thriller. A young American aid volunteer is murdered in Bosnia by a Serbian paramilitary who then vanishes with a fortune. The boy's grandfather, a Canadian billionaire, hires a man who does not kill his targets but renders them to American courts - and the hunt ends in a jungle compound in the days before September 2001.

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   Cu Chi

   Cal Dexter learns his trade as a tunnel rat, going down into the Viet Cong tunnels with a torch and a pistol - work that leaves him with a tolerance for confined dark places that will matter thirty years later.

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   Pennington

   Home in a quiet New Jersey town he practises small-town law, runs triathlons and lives alone - and takes the occasional private commission under a name that a handful of people know how to reach.

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   Banja Luka

   In Bosnia during the war, an American volunteer delivering aid is taken and killed by Zoran Zilic's paramilitaries - and years later his grandfather is still funding the search for a man who left Serbia rich and disappeared.

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   San Martin

   Zilic is found in a fortified compound on the northern coast of South America, protected by money, by a private army and - it emerges - by an American agency with its own use for him just weeks before the towers come down.