Cocaine NightsFlamingo, 1996 - 328 páginas The setting for Cocaine Nights is the Costa del Sol and the stylish resort of Estrella de Mar. 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. Frank is in jail, having confessed to setting an explosive fire that has taken five lives. Certain that the confession was coerced, Charles launches his own investigation. As he allows himself to be drawn further into Estrella de Mar's dark underworld, this explosive novel accelerates toward a disturbing climax. |
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... stepped over the shattered tiles and wine glasses at my feet . The intense heat had driven a jagged fissure through the stone walls , the scar of a lightning bolt that had condemned the property to the flames . Hennessy led the way ...
... stepped over the shattered tiles and wine glasses at my feet . The intense heat had driven a jagged fissure through the stone walls , the scar of a lightning bolt that had condemned the property to the flames . Hennessy led the way ...
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... stepped into the bathroom , and gazed down at the semi - circular tub filled with tarry water . Roof - tiles lay on the floor , and the blue ceramic walls were streaked with smoke , but the room was almost intact , a tiled execution ...
... stepped into the bathroom , and gazed down at the semi - circular tub filled with tarry water . Roof - tiles lay on the floor , and the blue ceramic walls were streaked with smoke , but the room was almost intact , a tiled execution ...
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... stepped on to the balcony and searched for the beacon of the Marbella lighthouse , assuming that an electrical discharge had destroyed the lantern . But the beam continued its soft circuit of the sky . The flames leapt from the centre ...
... stepped on to the balcony and searched for the beacon of the Marbella lighthouse , assuming that an electrical discharge had destroyed the lantern . But the beam continued its soft circuit of the sky . The flames leapt from the centre ...
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Frontiers and Fatalities | 9 |
The Fire at the Hollinger House | 22 |
The Tennis Machine | 29 |
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