An Olympic Death by Manuel Montalban

An Olympic Death by Manuel Montalban

As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho - who remembers the good old days when a hammer always came with a sickle - now finds himself forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs whose only game plan is to make a fast buck. As Montalban's overweight hero cruises the backstreets of the Barcelona dream, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past.

Montalban has a sharp wit and a knowing eye* Sunday Times *
He is the modern committed writer, entertaining his readers as he reveals what lies beneath Barcelona's glittering carpet. * Guardian *
As ever, with Montalban, the joy isn't so much in the crime as in the getting there with the nihilistic, food-loving Carvalho proving a wonderful guide to Barcelona's seedier side. * The Observer *

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He was a journalist, novelist and creator of Pepe Carvalho, a fast-living, gourmet private detective. Montalbán won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers, which are translated into all major languages. He died in October 2003.

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ISBN 13	9781846686726
ISBN 10	1846686725
Titel	An Olympic Death
Autor	Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Profile Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-08-21
Seitenanzahl	224
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.