Blood on the Saddle by Rafael Reig
Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who?ve quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people (both ?real? and ?fictional?) in their place.
Hilarious, a literary Hellzapoppin * Matt Thorne *
A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery -- The Times ?A refreshingly unconventional little book which takes the crime novel into a new dimension? a gloriously absurd spoof, amusing, provocative and occasionally touching? Sunday Telegraph ?Eccentric, dizzying and wonderful? Peter Guttridge, Obs * peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined X-rays? Time Magazine *
A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery -- The Times ?A refreshingly unconventional little book which takes the crime novel into a new dimension? a gloriously absurd spoof, amusing, provocative and occasionally touching? Sunday Telegraph ?Eccentric, dizzying and wonderful? Peter Guttridge, Obs * peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined X-rays? Time Magazine *
Born in Asturias in 1963, Rafael Reig studied Philosophy and Humanities in Madrid and later in New York, where he wrote his PhD thesis on 19th-century literary depictions of the prostitute. Today Reig combines university teaching with his writing and editing activities. His latest novel is Guapa de cara ('A Pretty Face'), published in 2004. Blood on the Saddle is the first of his novels to be translated into English.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852424862 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852424869 |
| Title | Blood on the Saddle |
| Author | Rafael Reig |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger 2006 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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