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  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446499252
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Leeches




A thrilling adventure into an underground world of secret societies and conspiracy theories.

A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...

  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446499252
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

David Albahari

David Albahari was born in Serbia in 1948. He founded, and was for many years the editor in chief of, Pismo, a magazine of world literature. He is also an accomplished translator of Anglo-American literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.

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Praise for Leeches

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Die Zeit

Kafka for our times

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

Claire Allfree, Metro

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Kate Saunders, The Times

Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough

La Vie Littéraire