In his remarkable new book Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his
first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde . In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet
up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price,
could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized
that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be
the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords
and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the
reader - never know whether Neven