Charlie Johnson in the Flames follows a veteran war correspondent posted to the Kosovo-Serb border in 1998. After witnessing a violent killing recorded on a friend’s camera, Charlie sets out to identify the perpetrator and confronts the costs of bearing witness.

Set against a tense, ruined landscape, the novel examines how conflict erodes communities and the fragile emotional margins of those who survive it. The investigation becomes a vehicle for moral reflection rather than a conventional thriller.

Compact and character-driven, the story foregrounds the inhumanity of war and the frailty of the human heart through intimate observation and moral dilemma.

• Setting: Kosovo-Serb border, 1998
• Focus: war reporting, murder, moral ambiguity
• Publisher: Viking Canada • 2003 • 158 pages • Hardcover

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