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A Small Death In Lisbon (Paperback)

by Robert Wilson (Author)
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Compulsively readable! rich in history and intrigue, love and death. Bold, inventive and wholly successful! Wilson unmistakably delivers the goods.' Literary Review 'This is vintage suspense writing; sharp, cold, mean and funny.' Alan Furst 'A gripping and absorbing drama that spans Europe from wartime Berlin to contemporary Lisbon.' Val McDermid 'A class act!For once a novelist influenced by Raymond Chandler is not shown up by the comparison.' Sunday Times

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This stunning, atmospheric thriller set in war-torn Europe won the CWA Gold Dagger and has now been reissued with the Javier Falcon series. A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals. Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon. 1941. Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg. Late 1990s, Lisbon. Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But there's an older, greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation, and in his final push for the truth, Ze must face the most chilling opposition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, May 20 2008
By Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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The story begins in the 1990's in Portugal when the body of a teenaged girl is found on a beach brutally murdered. Inspector Ze Coelho and his colleague are first on the scene and begin the investigation by tracking the final days of Catalina's life where they discover her innocence was destroyed by sex, drugs and emotional abuse.

The story then backtracks to 1941 when Klaus Felsen is forced out of his Berlin factory and into the ranks of the SS. He is sent to Lisbon where his mandate is to procure at any cost wolfram an essential metal needed by the 3rd Reich. Lisbon is a hotbed of activity and the base of operation where he meets a man who plunges him into a nightmarish world of brutality...

By masterfully moving back and forth from one era to another, connections and secrets are slowly unravelled to the present day Portugal. In doing so, Coelho skilfully links the past to the murder of Caterina...

This is a remarkable and powerful fiction novel based on historical facts, beautifully structured with inspiring characters and a gripping tale full of machination. The complicated murder plot involves the life of many suspects converging on the victim. The Felsen story takes all kinds of twists and turns giving us an insight into how the Nazi paid using "Nazi Gold" and the Salazar controlled central bank.

Both Catalina and Klaus stories are interesting on their own leading readers to wonder how they tie in. Wilson drops clues along the way revealing an incredibly complex ending that is as clever as it is intricate. This novel has a lot of descriptive sex and violence which may not appeal to all readers. In whole this book was fascinating and one of the best I have read in a long time, I will definitely be checking other novels written by this author.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing historical thriller, Aug 24 2003
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This book is difficult to put down. Extremely well written with intriguing and taught characters, it weaves together two stories, one taking place in present day in which the murder of a young girl is being investigated and the other about a young businessman who's forced into the SS during WWII. The book follows this man to present day and you begin to see how the two stories, though seemingly not related, are connected. I highly recommend this book. The story is great, the characters are great, the writing is fine -- I could not put it down.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!, Jan 15 2003
By David P. (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
A Small Death in Lisbon (1999)
Robert Wilson
Awards: Crime Writers' Association 1999 Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel
Genre: mystery - modern detective/historical WWII
Date Read: January 6, 2003- January 11, 2003
Comments: wow! excellent! two stories for the price of one, very well written, masterful storytelling, captivating, good balance of character development and descriptive setting, could have gone lighter on the graphic sex and violence
Advice: absolutely recommended - when you read it drink in every word!
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