When British journalist, Mick Morrison, finds himself almost by accident in Croatia as the Yugoslav conflicts of 1991-5 break out, he wonders whether he has the courage or resilience to become a successful war reporter. It is the beginning of a four-year journey leading him through the sieges of Dubrovnik and Sarajevo, the discovery of concentration camps in Northern Bosnia, killings in broad daylight in Višegrad, and an ethnic cleansing episode in which he comes close to losing his life.

As the Srebrenica massacre finally looks like leading to an end to the wars, Mick’s life is thrown into turmoil first by a personal tragedy and then by the emergence of a dark secret from his family’s past that disrupts his passage from rookie war reporter to award-winning journalist and makes him question his deepest convictions.

The Pavelić Trap, is an authentic and epic account of the fall of Yugoslavia.

Reviews to date include:

• "I'm giving it 5 stars because it's been a long time since a book made me cry and then sit in silence for, like, twenty minutes."
• "This isn't just a thriller; it is a profound meditation on inherited guilt and whether we can ever truly escape where we come from."
• "The Pavelić Trap works brilliantly on two levels: it is a harrowing, ground-level tour of the 1991-95 Yugoslav wars, but it is also a quiet, devastating psychological study of a man undone by his own heritage."
• This is a committed, scholarly-feeling novel that still reads like a page-turner. I finished it feeling like I’d witnessed history through a very human lens. Outstanding work - easily one of my top reads of the year.
• "A comprehensive, committed novel...such a powerful act of witnessing"
• "The gravitas of research and mastery of the subject is scholarly and impressive"
• "Strong, powerful. At times I had to force myself to put it down."
• "They should make a film of it."