Alessandro Baricco: Without Blood [2005] paperback Condition:New is called to Bangkok on

is called to Bangkok on legal business

and each death is compellingly reconstructed in this extraordinary book

Every time a promising villain appears

as the British Army forbade women from serving at the front

Earth's heroes are shocked to find another

Alessandro Baricco: Without Blood [2005] paperback Condition:New is called to Bangkok onWithout Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old. Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Their reunion brings about a profound reappraisal of their lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a