Tattoo (22 page)
Carvalho wandered along a path on the hillside, letting his legs choose a route in among pine trees and brambles, the fierce sun bringing out the smell of resin and vegetation. All of a sudden he remembered how the song ended:
Sailor, sit down and tell me
The news I am longing to hear
Remember how tall and proud he was
As bold and blond as beer
Look, this is the name of the stranger
Tattooed right here on my skin
Sailor, if your ships ever cross
Say that I’m dying for him
.
“Montalbán does for Barcelona what Chandler did for Los Angeles—he exposes the criminal power relationships beneath the façade of democracy.” —
THE GUARDIAN
THE ANGST-RIDDEN EXECUTIVE
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Scrupulously cynical detective/gourmet Pepe Carvalho is asked to investigate when a womanizing industrialist is murdered, but the police—and powerful friends of the dead man—prefer that he accept the official version.
“A writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed.”
—
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
THE BUENOS AIRES QUINTET
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In Buenos Aires to investigate the disappearance of his cousin, Pepe Carvalho quickly learns that the city is “hell-bent on self destruction” and that he’ll have to confront the traumas of Argentina’s “Dirty War” head-on if he wants to stay alive.
“An inventive and sexy writer … Warmly recommended.”
—
IRISH INDEPENDENT
MURDER IN THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
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Combines a classic “locked-room” murder mystery with a soul-searching Odyssey through the thickets of post-Fascist Spanish politics.
“Splendid flavor of life in Barcelona and Madrid, a memorable hero in Pepe, and one of the most startling love scenes you’ll ever come across.”
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THE SCOTSMAN
OFF SIDE
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Barcelona’s most promising new soccer star is receiving death threats, and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe, former communist, and political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
“Carvalho is funny … scathingly witty about the powerful.… Like Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, he is a man of honor walking the mean streets of a sick society.”
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THE INDEPENDENT
SOUTHERN SEAS
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Carvalho’s radical past collides with the present when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead. A mystery as eccentric as its cast of characters,
Southern Seas
was awarded Spain’s Planeta Prize (1979) and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1981).
“Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a le Carré–like sorrow.”
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