B612

by Davor Poljakovi

David Knezevic from small-town Croatia joins the Army, hoping his girlfriend and his abusive father will come to respect him. On graduation day, his hopes are crushed once he realizes everyone has left with their families - what he thought was his didn't even bother to show up. Disappointed with life, he volunteers to serve in Kabul, training Afghani police and troops. When his best friend (and superior officer) makes him share his Fortress of Solitude with a young French soldier whose smile could melt an iceberg, his life turns upside-down.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Davor Poljakovic (born July 11, 1987) is a Croatian actor, director, screenwriter, singer and author. Born in Vukovar, then in SFR Yugoslavia, now Croatia, he grew up in Cakovec, Croatia, where he started acting at early age of 5, appearing in numerous amateur productions, in both his native Croatian and English, through pre-school, elementary school, school for foreign languages he attended, and finally high school, where he realizes that acting is something he has done continuously throughout his life thus far and that acting is what he wants to do in life professionally.

After that turning point, he ups his game and begins actively working on his acting career, studying anything he believes a successful actor should know and acquiring skills he believes a successful actor should have. After his performance in Eugene Ionesco's 'The Lesson' at regional-level drama competition (which he won and went to the Nationals where he got rave reviews from the jury), he received an invitation from Romano Bogdan, renowned Croatian stage director and artistic director of Theatre company "Pinklec", to join his ensemble, which he accepted and stayed with them for 2 and a half years, until June 2008, when he decides to enroll at the University of Zagreb to study political sciences.

His time at the University was cut short when his dear friend, German film director and screenwriter Marco Kreuzpaintner made him an offer he couldn't refuse - to relocate to Berlin, Germany and study film directing and screenwriting under him. In 2011, after finishing the film treatment for B612, he decides to novelize it and, on September 1st, his first book, B612, was released digitally worldwide.

Reviews

[Arlene · Rating 2 out of 5]

Strange story. Very sad uneven. I really didn’t care for it.

[Antonella · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I would start to write in English as a non native speaker I'd ask someone to proofread my text. The author apparently didn't bother. NB: I'm a non native speaker, so I just saw the most evident spelling/grammar mistakes.