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品牌: Manuel Vazquez MontalbanEd Emery
基本信息出版社:Melville International Crime (2012年7月17日)丛书名:A Pepe Carvalho Mystery平装:288页正文语种:英语ISBN:1612191150条形码:9781612191157商品重量:367 gASIN:1612191150您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelona's world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. “The center forward will be killed at dusk,” reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho.
With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia?
Here Montalbán does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spain’s most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses—and limits—of power.媒体推荐“The most original detective to come along in an age and the mix of political intrigue, Barcelona style, and Catalan cooking tips, makes for a great read.”
—Venue
“Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangled of mysteries.”
—Sunday Times
“Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a Le Carré-like sorrow.”
—Publishers Weekly
