Author: Manuel Vázquez MontalbánPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
They met on a plane, back when Pepe Carvalho was still with the CIA, and had a pleasant, forgettable conversation. Years later, a woman shows up in Pepe's office in Barcelona to say that Pepe's seatmate, the industrialist Antonio Jauma, was her husband, and he's been murdered. The police say Jauma was a 'womanizer' and he was murdered buy a pimp. Pepe discovers that Jauma was a womanizer--in "the least pleasant sense", as an associate informs him, but he decides the police are wrong anyway, and goes at the case with his normal, phlegmatic doggedness-that is, with time out for a signature philosophical book-burning or two(Sarte, Sholokhov), cooking a grand meal or two(leek soup, freshly caught steamed turbot, discussing democracy, fascism, and communism with his assistant, and relaxing with his girlfriend Charo, whose last name he can't remember. At least, until he discovers that his own life is in danger for not accepting the official version of Jauma's death.
