Cocaine NightsCounterpoint, 1998 - 328 páginas In "Cocaine Nights," the setting is the Costa del Sol, and the stylish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in a lifestyle of endless leisure. Into the queasy beauty of this artificial environment steps Charles Prentice, a travel writer from London who has come to visit his brother Frank, manager of the resort's Club Nautico - tennis and swim club by day, coked-up discotheque by night. Frank is in jail, having confessed to setting an explosive fire that has taken five lives. Certain that the confession was coerced, Charles wants to launch his own investigation. But Frank isn't interested in salvation, and the Spanish police don't want their open-and-shut case corrupted by a meddling Brit. Charles insists on continuing his crusade, though his life is threatened. |
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... walls were lined with books , whose spines peeled from the charred shelves . Above the bed was a small dormer window that con- tained the only intact glass I had seen on the upper floor of the mansion . ' Was this Hollinger's study ...
... walls were lined with books , whose spines peeled from the charred shelves . Above the bed was a small dormer window that con- tained the only intact glass I had seen on the upper floor of the mansion . ' Was this Hollinger's study ...
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... walls , criss - crossed by the shadows of the steel grilles over the garden windows , each a dark portcullis . Our silhouettes moved across the bars , figures in a pageant of convict life . ' It reminds me of Piranesi's Carceri - I ...
... walls , criss - crossed by the shadows of the steel grilles over the garden windows , each a dark portcullis . Our silhouettes moved across the bars , figures in a pageant of convict life . ' It reminds me of Piranesi's Carceri - I ...
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... walls lit by the sunlight in the garden , once again the Piranesi ante- chamber where the psychiatrist had felt so at home . The van- dals had continued their work inside the house , and aerosol slogans covered the walls and ceilings ...
... walls lit by the sunlight in the garden , once again the Piranesi ante- chamber where the psychiatrist had felt so at home . The van- dals had continued their work inside the house , and aerosol slogans covered the walls and ceilings ...
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Frontiers and Fatalities 9 | 9 |
The Fire at the Hollinger House | 22 |
The Tennis Machine | 29 |
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