An Olympic Death (Five Star Title) - Softcover

?A lament for a fading Barcelona? a story as rich and pungent in the manchego cheese in La Boqueria? Jack ?Carvalho?s sharp observations and dry sense of humour bring this novel, and the unique city of Barcelona, to life. Readers will be left hungry by Montalban?s 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 ?Montalb?n does for Barcelona what Chandler did for Los Angeles ? he exposes the criminal power relationships beneath the facade of democracy? Guardian

Montalb?n 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 Barcelona?s glittering carpet? Guardian 'Montalb?n 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)

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 Montalb?n?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.