Montenegro

In the forbidding beauty of the mountains of Montenegro, with World War I already a dark prophecy on the horizon, an English traveller with a keen interest in the tangled politics of the Balkans happens upon a remote valley. Auberon Harwell is the confidential agent of a powerful English peer who sees advantage in the decline of the Ottoman Empire and threat in the rise of Austria-Hungary. Caught between these powers are the Montenegrin Serbs, whose greatest hero is Danilo Pekocevic patriarch of the valley. He dreams of yet another empire, the one his ancestors lost to the Turks on the Field…