Used book – The Manager's Solitude, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

The manager of a multinational company is found dead, without underwear, with a pair of panties in his pocket. A staging too stereotypical to fool Pepe Carvalho, the private detective hired by the widow. Between the anti-Franco left, from which the manager originated, and the globalized elites who made his fortune, Carvalho discovers a new face of Spain and forms of power... sometimes deadly.

Born in Barcelona in 1939 and died in 2003, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, a fervent opponent of Francoism, discovered writing in prison. He was a journalist, food critic, poet, essayist, and novelist. The investigations of the Catalan detective Pepe Carvalho are available from Points.

"One rediscovers or discovers the humor, culture, pleasure, finesse, and popular sense of the city and history that Manuel Vázquez Montalbán possessed and dispensed in equal measure."

Libération Translated from Spanish by Michèle Gazier