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Cocaine Nights
J. G. Ballard

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Cocaine Nights

Flamingo (Sep 19, 1996)
1st Edition
0002241358
| Hardcover
329 pages | English
€ 16.00 | Value: € 20.48
Dewey 823/.914
LC Classification PR6052.A46 .C58 1996
LC Control No. 97152085

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • British - Fiction. - Spain
  • Retirees - Fiction
  • Spain - Fiction

Plot

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.