An Olympic Death

Resumen del libro

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 Montalbáns 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.


Reviews
'A lament for a fading Barcelona a story as rich and pungent in the manchego cheese in La Boqueria Jack

'Carvalhos sharp observations and dry sense of humour bring this novel, and the unique city of Barcelona, to life. Readers will be left hungry by Montalbans mouth-watering descriptions of Catalan cuisine Ink

'This book draws you in with lively descriptions of detailed landscapes, smells and sounds that hark back to Hemingway
Daily Post

'Montalbán does for Barcelona what Chandler did for Los
Angeles - he exposes the criminal power relationships beneath the facade of democracy
Guardian

'Montalbán has a sharp wit and a knowing eye Sunday Times

'He is the modern committed writer, entertaining his readers as he reveals what lies beneath Barcelonas glittering carpet
Guardian

'Montalbán is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed'
Times Literary Supplement


'An inventive and sexy writer... warmly recommended Irish Independent

Biografía del autor

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939-2003), autor multidisciplinar, cultivó la narrativa, la poesía, el ensayo, la crítica y el periodismo, aunque alcanzó el éxito nacional e internacional con la serie de novelas protagonizadas por el detective Pepe Carvalho. Considerado como uno de los maestros del género policiaco en lengua castellana y como uno de los más influyentes intelectuales españoles del siglo XX, ganó, entre otros, el Premio Nacional de Narrativa, el Premio de la Crítica y el Premio Nacional de las Letras.