The Angst-Ridden Executive - Couverture souple

Montalban, Manuel Vazquez

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1612190383 ISBN 13 : 9781612190389

Editeur : Melville House Pub, 2012

Synopsis

The Angst-Ridden Executive Introducing one of crime fiction's most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter--back when Carvalho still worked for the CIA. Jauma was a "womanizer," accordin... Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Introducing one of crime fiction’s most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America

When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter—back when Carvalho still worked for the CIA.

Jauma was a “womanizer,” according to a friend, “of the least pleasant sense,” and the police have decided that the murder is the work of an unhappy pimp. But Carvalho doggedly pursues his own phlegmatic investigation, with time out for his signature book burning (Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reasoning; Sholokov’s And Quiet Flows the Don), cooking (leek soup and a freshly-caught steamed turbot), and running with his girlfriend Charo, whose last name he can’t remember.

Revue de presse

“Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a le Carré-like sorrow.” —Publishers Weekly

"If Graham Green, P.G. Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, and Anthony Bourdain all sat together in front of a typewriter, the result would be Pepe Carvalho." —Crimespree Magazine

"One can only hope for more from this marvellous series." —The Globe and Mail

"[The books in the Pepe Carvalho series] provide a look at post-Franco life in Barcelona and Madrid and are invaluable historical markers of a period in Spanish history." —20-Something Reads

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melville House Pub
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612190383
• ISBN 13: 9781612190389
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 229
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible