The Buenos Aires Quintet

Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612190359
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Buenos Aires Quintet written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assignment: Finding one of Argentina's 30,000 "Disappeared" ... likely outcome: Becoming one yourself. The Argentine army's "Dirty War" disappeared 30,000 people, and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to investigate one of the vanished, even if that missing person is his cousin. But blood proves thicker than a fine Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignon, even for a jaded gourmand like Pepe, and so at his family's request he leaves Barcelona for Buenos Aires. What follows is perhaps Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's masterpiece: a combination white-knuckle investigation and moving psychological travelogue. Pepe quickly learns that "Buenos Aires is a beautiful city hell-bent on self-destruction," and finds himself on a trail involving boxers and scholars, military torturers and seductive semioticians, Borges fans and cold-blooded murderers. And despite the wonders of the Tango and the country's divine cuisine, he also knows one thing: He'll have to confront the traumas of Argentina's past head on if he wants not only to find his cousin, but simply stay alive.

Author : Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher : Melville International Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781612190341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Buenos Aires Quintet written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and published by Melville International Crime. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.

Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612190391
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angst-Ridden Executive written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher : Melville International Crime
ISBN 13 : 1612191150
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off Side written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and published by Melville International Crime. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona's new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who's behind it. Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelona's world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. "The center forward will be killed at dusk," reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho. With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia? Here Montalbán does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spain's most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses--and limits--of power.

Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 9781846686726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Olympic Death written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Montalbán'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.

Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612191185
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Seas written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell’s wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.

Author : Arnold Steinhardt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374527006
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indivisible by Four written by Arnold Steinhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells of his own development as a student, "of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music ... [and of how] four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing."--Jacket.

Author : María Susana Azzi
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195127773
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Grand Tango written by María Susana Azzi and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier vividly capture the life of Piazolla, the Argentinean musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. 42 halftones.

Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612192092
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tattoo written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Pepe Carvalho could use a tattoo saying "Born to Raise Hell in Hell" as evidence that the police are, once again, dead wrong In a Spain still stifled under the rule of Franco, former CIA operative--and former Communist--Pepe Carvalho has become so cynical he seems to care about nothing except food and sex. He's even taken to burning the occasional book in his Barcelona apartment, just so he can have a fire going in the fireplace when he eats some bacalhao. But when he sees the cops bungling a case he's hired to investigate--that of a body pulled out of the sea--he's roused by a sense of injustice. The cops think the murder was connected to local drug dealers and brothels, and they begin raiding bars and harassing Barcelona's women of the night. But Carvalho's gut tells him something else is going on, and the cops are wrong once again. As the cops stir up more and more trouble, and Carvalho gets more and more entwined, he's only got one clue: a tattoo on the dead man's body, one which reads: "Born to Raise Hell in Hell."

Author : Tariq Ali
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480448583
Total Pages : 1701 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islam Quintet written by Tariq Ali and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 1701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London. Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed works of fiction, available now in one collection. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: “Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain” in “an enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve” (The Independent). For the doomed Moors, the fall of Granada and the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. The Book of Saladin: After Saladin reclaims the holy city of Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he turns to a Jewish scribe to record his story, which Edward Said calls “a narrative for our time, haunted by distant events and characters who are closer to us than we had dreamed.” The Stone Woman: “Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world,” proclaims the New York Times Book Review, as a distant descendant of an exiled Ottoman courtier suffers a stroke in Istanbul, and his family rushes to his side to hear his last stories. A Sultan in Palermo: In “a marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation,” cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi is caught between his friendship with King Roger of Sicily and the resentments of his fellow Muslims (The Guardian). Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Lahore-born writer living in London is called back to his homeland by an old friend who, at seventy-five, has finally fallen in love. “If Pakistan is a land of untold stories,” writes the New Statesman, Ali is “the country’s finest historian and critic.”