Media reports, citing police sources and witnesses, say that three masked men attacked Brkovic as he was entering the apartment building where he lives. His bodyguard, Srdjan Vojicic, tried to help him but the attackers shot him dead.
Brkovic, a dissident during the Milosevic era, said that the attack was "the work of the murderers and mobsters who recognised themselves in my latest novel."
In his latest novel "Ljubavnik Duklje (Lover of Duklja)" Brkovic portrayed public life in Montenegro, indirectly accusing many public figures of crime.