Occasion – Life goes fast in August, Claude Delmas

José, a gas 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 cash-transporting air taxi on the tarmac

of Perpignan airport, with Mouloud, the quarry keeper at the marble quarry.

But he hasn't reckoned with the hideous Mendoza and his henchmen, a gang of thugs who spy on the young man's every move, his comings and goings on his powerful motorcycle, 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 gets involved...

A noir novel - inevitably tragic - as scorching as the Catalan summer.

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

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