Balkanized at Sunrise

The Time: the immediate aftermath of the bloody Balkan wars of the 90s. The Man: a penniless science-fiction author. The Job: write the official biography of Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman. In an effort to keep Tudjman out of the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague the Croatian government hired Joe Tripician author of The Official Alien Abductee's Handbook to pen a state-sanctioned biography for US consumption. The biography far from a whitewashed piece of propaganda became a darkly comic and sadly tragic tale of deception danger death and desire where guilt abounds but responsibility remains elusive. Balkanized at Sunrise is the true story of how Joe navigated between toadying government aides lying politicians harassed dissident journalists and Croatian and Bosnian women looking for a quick visa. It's a fascinating memoir of political moral and sexual proportions.