A review by neuroqueer_af
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher

4.0

I wanted a book that told Gavrilo Princip's story. I wasn't disappointed in this regard; Butcher even goes as far as visit Princip's descendants in the village where he spent his childhood and find his school records in Sarajevo - fascinating stuff. Parts where the author diverged from the teenage assassin himself were a bit more hit-or-miss. While it is interesting to see how Princip viewed now, in the lense of Bosnia's recent history, many of these asides seemed to be an excuse for the author to delve into some self-indulgent travel writing that didn't always benefit the text's main thread.