Ivan Kušan (1933–2012)

From cover: A series of robberies had hit almost every household in the small village of Green Hill, a community still suffering from wartime deprivations, even though peace had finally come. The police could not help: they had not even enough men to protect the citizens from the occasional enemy stragglers who still harrassed the town. Five village boys--Koko, Tom, Blacky, Cockroach, and Bozo, determined to discover and catch the thieves themselves. Ivan Kusan, a Yugoslavian writer, has written a taut, fast-moving mystery, spiced with quiet humor and the color of its unusual setting.… (plus d'informations)