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Under The Blue Flag

by Philip Kearney
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Seeking to escape the monotony he had come to endure in his job as assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, Philip Kearney needed a change. His solution came one day in a casual email from a friend: "UN has opening here for an international prosecutor doing war crimes stuff. You should apply, gotta go." "Here" meant Pristina, Kosovo. And "stuff"—Kearney soon finds out, after landing the job despite his inexperience with international law and inability to speak any foreign languages—meant a harrowing string of investigations involving the most brutal and devastating crimes imaginable. Abruptly removed from the comforts of home and the order and stability of America's justice system, Kearney finds himself the sole international prosecutor assigned to a region of nearly one million people. Welcome to the Balkans circa 2001. Kearney is thrown headlong into a series of historic investigations that quickly land him under the protection of four armed security guards. Armed himself with only the region's archaic criminal justice code, Kearney is soon prosecuting local street thugs, shutting down a ring of international sex-traffickers, and spearheading an investigation into secret death camps—a case that ultimately implicates prominent local officials and inflames ethnic violence. He developed an urgent passion, stemming from devastating stories of torture, murder, and slavery that dominate Kosovo's bleak landscape. Under the Blue Flag reads like an international legal thriller as Kearney and his colleagues are shuttled in armored vehicles between years-old crime scenes and the makeshift courtrooms where Kosovo's fledging legal system is tested daily. In the face of almost insurmountable obstacles—witness intimidation, corrupt law enforcement, and deep ethnic biases—the truth is slowly revealed, and with it emerges a cast of conflict-weary locals and displaced internationals, many of whom come to represent the war's most courageous and unheralded heroes. Under the Blue Flag is a passionate and eye-opening look at a post-war Kosovo that continues to straddle the stubborn gap between a past corrupted by violence and injustice, and a future governed by the rule of law.

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Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781607474906
  • File size: 321506 KB
  • Release date: March 23, 2010
  • Duration: 11:09:48

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  • ISBN: 9781607474906
  • File size: 321981 KB
  • Release date: March 23, 2010
  • Duration: 11:09:48
  • Number of parts: 10

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Biography & Autobiography Current Events Nonfiction

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Seeking to escape the monotony he had come to endure in his job as assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, Philip Kearney needed a change. His solution came one day in a casual email from a friend: "UN has opening here for an international prosecutor doing war crimes stuff. You should apply, gotta go." "Here" meant Pristina, Kosovo. And "stuff"—Kearney soon finds out, after landing the job despite his inexperience with international law and inability to speak any foreign languages—meant a harrowing string of investigations involving the most brutal and devastating crimes imaginable. Abruptly removed from the comforts of home and the order and stability of America's justice system, Kearney finds himself the sole international prosecutor assigned to a region of nearly one million people. Welcome to the Balkans circa 2001. Kearney is thrown headlong into a series of historic investigations that quickly land him under the protection of four armed security guards. Armed himself with only the region's archaic criminal justice code, Kearney is soon prosecuting local street thugs, shutting down a ring of international sex-traffickers, and spearheading an investigation into secret death camps—a case that ultimately implicates prominent local officials and inflames ethnic violence. He developed an urgent passion, stemming from devastating stories of torture, murder, and slavery that dominate Kosovo's bleak landscape. Under the Blue Flag reads like an international legal thriller as Kearney and his colleagues are shuttled in armored vehicles between years-old crime scenes and the makeshift courtrooms where Kosovo's fledging legal system is tested daily. In the face of almost insurmountable obstacles—witness intimidation, corrupt law enforcement, and deep ethnic biases—the truth is slowly revealed, and with it emerges a cast of conflict-weary locals and displaced internationals, many of whom come to represent the war's most courageous and unheralded heroes. Under the Blue Flag is a passionate and eye-opening look at a post-war Kosovo that continues to straddle the stubborn gap between a past corrupted by violence and injustice, and a future governed by the rule of law.

Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Current Events Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Phoenix Books, Inc.
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781607474906
    File size: 321506 KB
    Release date: March 23, 2010
    Duration: 11:09:48

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781607474906
    File size: 321981 KB
    Release date: March 23, 2010
    Duration: 11:09:48
    Number of parts: 10

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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