The Territory of the Comanche

For a war correspondent, the “territory of the Comanches” is a place where instinct tells you to retreat. A place where the roads are deserted and instead of houses there are burned-out ruins. Where it’s always twilight, and pressed against the wall, you make your way to where shooting happens, hearing shattered glass crunch under your feet. The Comanches’ territory is a place where you’re constantly kept in the scope of sniper rifles…

The book by the outstanding Spanish prose writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte “The Territory of the Comanches” is a truthful story of war in Yugoslavia, where there is no morality.