Summary
Stjepo Martinović: Paintball
To launch an ambitious project of extremely extreme paintball, which will compete with the best in the world, the Adrenalin Tours agency chooses the almost uninhabited island of Ižula in the southern Adriatic, where there are natural conditions more suitable than in the Amazon jungle - vicious maquis with countless hiding places and obstacles, abandoned shepherd's shelters and ruined former navy facilities with buried warehouses and crew quarters. War games with gelatin balls for insurance and marketing agency officials are a training ground for unleashing warrior instincts and the lowest passions, while for Lucijan Anić, returning to his almost unrecognizable home island is an opportunity for small profits, but also an unexpected last romance. A devoted partner becomes a valuable interlocutor when the hidden motives of the organizers of the war games begin to be revealed when a terrifying ritual murder takes place on the island... Stjepo Martinović is devoted to the Mediterranean as his deepest inspiration and sets the novel "Paintball" on a non-existent island in Dubrovnik's waters.
War games, romance under the stars, the lowest passions, bloody murder and the trail of revenge are the ingredients of another sumptuous cocktail. genres that the experienced and multi-award-winning writer mixes with his rich literary experience, journalistic sense of current affairs and rare talent for the richness of language, which equally convincingly describes action scenes and emotional doubts of the characters. Listening to nature and its messages in enchanting Mediterranean landscapes, with a refined feeling for portraying female characters, Stjepo Martinović presents himself to the audience again in a new and unexpected edition and once again unique and recognizable.
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