Opportunity - Life moves fast in August, Claude Delmas

José, a service station robber, feels suffocated by his family in a remote village in the Corbières region. He sees Estelle, the daughter of a wealthy winegrower. But above all, he dreams of moving to Spain, to Madrid, the country of his grandfather, a republican hero of the civil war. José then plans to rob a money-carrying taxi plane on the tarmac

of Perpignan airport, with Mouloud, the guardian of the marble quarry.

But he hasn't reckoned with the dreadful Mendoza and his henchmen, a gang of thugs who watch the young man's every move, his powerful motorcycle trips back and forth between the arid hills and the coastal plain, where José also sees Anna, a Parisian on holiday in a port on the rocky coast.

And life moves fast in August when you're chasing your dreams and fate intervenes...

A noir novel - necessarily tragic - as hot as the Catalan summer.

In the same collection:

Bulgarian Tapas for Germinal Poco by René Grando The last Talgo to Port-Bou by François Darnaudet Forthcoming:

Murder in Aimé-Giral by Philippe Ward The Demons of the South by René Grando ISBN 2-908476-43-6 www.marenostrumeditions.com 9 782908 476439 €10 Catalan crime novels