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BLOOD ON THE SADDLE (Five Star Paperback S.)

BLOOD ON THE SADDLE (Five Star Paperback S.)

by PaulHammond (Translator), RafaelReig (Author)

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Synopsis

Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who?ve quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people (both ?real? and ?fictional?) in their place.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 16 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 1852424869
ISBN 13: 9781852424862

Media Reviews
Hilarious, a literary Hellzapoppin * Matt Thorne *
A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery -- The Times ?A refreshingly unconventional little book which takes the crime novel into a new dimension? a gloriously absurd spoof, amusing, provocative and occasionally touching? Sunday Telegraph ?Eccentric, dizzying and wonderful? Peter Guttridge, Obs * peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined X-rays? Time Magazine *
Author Bio
Born in Asturias in 1963, Rafael Reig studied Philosophy and Humanities in Madrid and later in New York, where he wrote his PhD thesis on 19th-century literary depictions of the prostitute. Today Reig combines university teaching with his writing and editing activities. His latest novel is Guapa de cara ('A Pretty Face'), published in 2004. Blood on the Saddle is the first of his novels to be translated into English.