Blind Man of Seville - Hardcover

Wilson, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151008353 ISBN 13: 9780151008353

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Detective Inspector Javier Falcón is transfixed by the brutalized face of murder victim Raul Jiménez in his Seville apartment. On his shirtfront, littered like exotic petals, are the man's eyelids, and so the victim’s relentless horror becomes the beginning of Falcón's own.

An old photograph at the murder scene prompts Falcón to read a set of journals left by his famous father, the artist Fransisco Falcón. He discovers that he'd never known the father he'd always loved, and as the case unfolds, Falcón's mind unravels as all the old certainties are undermined. More victims fall but neither the evidence nor the secrets of the victims' lives give Falcón the vital breakthrough he needs. The pieces of the puzzle finally fall together when Falcón finds the missing section of his father's journals--and becomes the killer's next intended victim.

With The Blind Man of Seville, Robert Wilson's unparalleled combination
of suspenseful storytelling and keen understanding of the ambiguities of the human soul confirm his place as one of the best mystery writers in the world today.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Wilson is the author of six novels, including A Small Death in Lisbon, which won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of 1999 from Britain's Crime Writers Association. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa. He lives with his wife in an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.

Robert Wilson is the author of six novels, including A Small Death in Lisbon, which won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of 1999 from Britain's Crime Writers Association. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa. He lives with his wife in an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.

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Robert Wilson is recognized as a master mystery and thriller writer

Wilson has a preacher s gift for the language of pain and great compassion for people caught up in the crucible of war.
-New York Times Book Review

Wilson demonstrates, as Graham Greene did long ago, that thrillers are the liveliest, most gripping, most thought-provoking literary enterprises going today. The most readable too, when penned by a master spinner like Wilson.
-LA Times Book Review

The British seem to breed terrific mystery and thriller writers with astonishing ease think of everyone from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to Agatha Christie, to John Le Carré and P.D. James. The latest import about to catch fire in the U.S.? Robert Wilson.
-NY Post

"A highly evocative writer whose sense of place is nearly as acute as his talent for characterization."
- The Raleigh News and Observer


Le Carré s equal when it comes to plotting, piling surprise upon surprise and keeping the reader guessing until the bittersweet ending.
-Denver Post

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Robert Wilson is recognized as a master mystery and thriller writer

Wilson has a preacher s gift for the language of pain and great compassion for people caught up in the crucible of war.
-New York Times Book Review

Wilson demonstrates, as Graham Greene did long ago, that thrillers are the liveliest, most gripping, most thought-provoking literary enterprises going today. The most readable too, when penned by a master spinner like Wilson.
-LA Times Book Review

The British seem to breed terrific mystery and thriller writers with astonishing ease think of everyone from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to Agatha Christie, to John Le Carré and P.D. James. The latest import about to catch fire in the U.S.? Robert Wilson.
-NY Post

"A highly evocative writer whose sense of place is nearly as acute as his talent for characterization."
- The Raleigh News and Observer


Le Carré s equal when it comes to plotting, piling surprise upon surprise and keeping the reader guessing until the bittersweet ending.
-Denver Post

Aus dem Klappentext

It's Semana Santa in Seville, the Easter week of passion and processions. A leading restaurateur is found bound, gagged and grotesquely murdered in front of his TV. Self-inflicted wounds tell of the man's struggle to avoid the unendurable images he's been forced to watch. At this horrific scene the normally dispassionate homicide detective Javier Falcón is inexplicably afraid. What could be so terrible?

The investigation into the victim's turbulent life sends Falcón trawling through his own past and the ferociously candid journals of his late father, a world-famous artist. Painful revelations churn up Falcón's unreliable memory and more killings push him to the edge of terrifying truth. And Falcón realizes that this is not just a hunt for the all-seeing killer who knows his victims' secret lives but also the search for his own missing heart.

From the Gold Dagger award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon, a novel that combines the tension of a psychological thriller with the emotional intensity of a literary tour de force.

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It's Semana Santa in Seville, the Easter week of passion and processions. A leading restaurateur is found bound, gagged and grotesquely murdered in front of his TV. Self-inflicted wounds tell of the man's struggle to avoid the unendurable images he's been forced to watch. At this horrific scene the normally dispassionate homicide detective Javier Falcón is inexplicably afraid. What could be so terrible?

The investigation into the victim's turbulent life sends Falcón trawling through his own past and the ferociously candid journals of his late father, a world-famous artist. Painful revelations churn up Falcón's unreliable memory and more killings push him to the edge of terrifying truth. And Falcón realizes that this is not just a hunt for the all-seeing killer who knows his victims' secret lives but also the search for his own missing heart.

From the Gold Dagger award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon, a novel that combines the tension of a psychological thriller with the emotional intensity of a literary tour de force.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151008353
• ISBN 13: 9780151008353
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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