{"id":328,"count":1,"description":"Christopher DeMorteau, author of Pellegrina, is the son of a mailwoman and a merchant navy mariner.\r\nAs a child, he met his father in ports across the world\u2014Odessa, Aruba, Singapore\u2014wherever the tanker came to dock.\r\nTrained as a Light Infantry Scout, he went on to serve for two decades as an Army Legal Services officer, with deployments in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and beyond.\r\nAfter a brief period as an armed contractor, he joined the International Committee of the Red Cross, taking part in missions across Iraq, Nepal, Lebanon, Laos, West Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere.\r\nHis academic work\u2014particularly on the law of civil wars\u2014has been widely cited, including in the Revised Commentary to the Geneva Conventions.\r\nToday, he manages a law firm in Greece extending throughout Europe, and lectures occasionally on Humanitarian Law, Operational Law, and the methodology of war crimes investigations. He has published monographs and numerous scholarly articles under his real name, Constantine Mortopoulos.\r\nPellegrina is his first\u2014and last\u2014work of fiction.","link":"https:\/\/akakia.net\/en\/authors\/christopher-demorteau\/","name":"Christopher DeMorteau","slug":"christopher-demorteau","taxonomy":"berocket_brand","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akakia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/berocket_brand\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akakia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/berocket_brand"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akakia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/berocket_brand"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/akakia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?berocket_brand=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}