Richard Bassett has worked in the City for the last fifteen years advising several of Europe's largest companies. Before then he worked in Central Europe for many years, first as a professional horn player and then as a staff correspondent of the London Times in Vienna, Rome and Warsaw, where his dispatches covered the end of the cold war and gave early warning of the impending disintegration of Yugoslavia. He is married with two children and divides his time between London and other parts of Europe.
En 1979, el autor de este libro emprendió una serie de viajes que lo llevarían a recorrer el corazón de Europa. De Trieste a Praga y de Viena a Varsovia, Bassett cruzaría su camino con el de aristócratas venidos a menos, gánsteres tan encantadores como peligrosos, diplomáticos díscolos...
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