The Exchange-rate Between Love and Money - Tapa blanda

Warm-hearted and wildly funny, "The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money" tackles love and war and the brutal costs of both, in all their madness, hilarity, and hurt. Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dotcom years; soaking up Reconstruction Money isn't the worst plan ever. That's before they realize that Clare Leischman, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, is the best person 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 programs, black marketeers, lawyers, soldiers both salaried and self-employed, poker hustlers, Machiavellian intelligence officers, and expat hedonists all high on Dayton money.And by the time Frito and Bannerman have started hunting men accused of war crimes, their own lives have taken on all the risk, craziness, and emotional upheaval - but very little of the money - that they'd bargained for. "The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money" is a page-turning love story told hand-in-hand with stories of Sarajevan heroism and how the international justice business does, or doesn't, work. It is an unforgettable first novel.

Thomas Leveritt is half-American, half-British, and 32. This is his first novel. He has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In addition, he has: programmed computers, aid-worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an Army Scholarship into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, a Law Scholarship into Middle Temple, 28 cousins in Texas, and held the UK distribution rights for the very excellent Sarajevo Pivo beer.