Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Borger recounts how Ratko Mladic - now on trial in The Hague - and recently convicted Radovan Karadzic were finally tracked down, and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Milo evic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war.