The Black Nineteen

The eighth book by V. M. Straka, published in 1925. The English-language edition was published by Karst & Son.

In style and themes it stands out of the other, deeply political and radical, Straka novels. Many don't see it as a work of fiction (for which Straka probably adopted a different style) but rather as an autobiography or reportage; a guide to the innermost workings of the Black Hand and a confession to its political killings. Under this light, Straka (or whoever wrote the book) is identified as a high-ranking member or an associate. A few years later, the book sparked the theory that Straka was Apis's Amanuensis, the mysterious aid of Dragutin Dimitrijevic.

See also: 19

Content
Set in the Hapsburg Empire, it contains a bloody tale of intrigue. Violence and bloodthirstiness is much more extreme (and less morally ambiguous) than other Straka novels. It doesn't overlap with other books of Straka, except an Interlude between chapters, also seen in Ship of Theseus.

P. 262 contains a description of Princip as a "feeble, sweaty homunculus with a gun and a mission".