| Cocaine Nights Contributor(s): Ballard, J. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582435707 ISBN-13: 9781582435701 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Dystopian |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 330 pages |
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| Publisher Description: From the iconic author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, Cocaine Nights features a man who finds himself drawn into a network of drugs, pornography, and murder in a Spanish resort. The remarkable bestseller from one of the giants of modern British literature--at once an engrossing mystery and an unnerving vision of a society coming to terms with a life of unlimited leisure. When Charles Prentice arrives in Spain to investigate his brother's involvement in the death of five people in a fire in the upmarket coastal resort of Estrella de Mar, he gradually discovers that beneath the civilised, cultured surface of this exclusive enclave for Britain's retired rich there flourishes a secret world of crime, drugs and illicit sex . What starts as an engrossing mystery develops into a mesmerising novel of ideas--a dazzling work of the imagination from one of Britain's most original and controversial novelists. |