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A Small Death in Lisbon Robert Wilson

A Small Death in Lisbon By Robert Wilson

A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson


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Summary

Klaus Felsen, press-ganged into the SS, has come to Lisbon where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs join in a whirl of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him to the northern mountains where Inspector Coelho is investigating the death of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past.

A Small Death in Lisbon Summary

A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

A complex and totally gripping literary thriller from one of our most exciting young authors. 'A class act...For once a novelist influenced by Raymond Chandler is not shown up by the comparison' -- Sunday Times 1941. Europe's as dark as a coal hole and Lisbon's the furnace mouth. Klaus Felsen, press-ganged into the SS from his Berlin factory, has arrived at the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance in a whirl of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him out of the spy-ridden hotel lounges and into the bleak mountains of the north where a less sophisticaed, more brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg. There he meets the man who will start the first turn of the cycle of greed and revenge which wheels through the next fifty years. Inspector Ze Coelho, an outsider in the insider world of the Policia Judiciaria in modern day Lisbon, is investigating the death of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper into her insignificant death, he finds he's turning the dark soil of history and unearthing old bones. The Portuguese revolution is hardly a generation old and the injustices of the old fascist regime have never been fully resolved. But there is an older and even greater injustice which this small death in Lisbon has sought, horrifically, to redress, and in Ze's final push for the truth, he must confront a more chilling, powerful and resistant force.

A Small Death in Lisbon Reviews

Praise for Robert Wilson: 'Excellent... gripping and grim. A vivid and steamy stumble on the wild side' Val McDermid 'A densely plotted thriller, prickling with excitement... fiercely imagined and not a little frightening' Literary Review

About Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson has spent several years in West Africa, and he drew on this experience for his Bruce Medway novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal, the setting for A Small Death in Lisbon.

Additional information

GOR001930307
9780002326681
000232668X
A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
19990719
400
Winner of CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 1999 Winner of Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award 1999
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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