Book description
Motionless, Montalbano waited for the surf to enter his brain and wash
it clean with each breaker. At last the first light wave came like a
caress, swiiissshhh, and carried away, glugluglug, Elena Sclafani and
her beauty, while Michela Pardo's tits, belly, arched body and eyes
likewise disappeared. Once Montalbano the man was erased, all that
should remain was Inspector Montalbano - a kind of abstract function,
the person who was supposed to solve the case and nothing more, with no
personal feelings involved. But as he was telling himself this, he knew
perfectly well that he could never pull it off. As he gets older,
Inspector Montalbano is beset by existential questions. But he doesn't
have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man
- shot in the face at point-blank range with his trousers down -
commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime
suspects, dirty cocaine, dead politicians, mysterious computer codes,
and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very
complicated at the police headquarters in Vigàta. 'The novels of Andrea
Camilleri breath out the sense of place, the sense of humour, and the
sense of despair that fill the air of Sicliy. To read him is to be taken
to that glorious, tortured island' Donna Leon
Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers.
His Montalbano series has been adapted for Italian television and
translated into nine languages. He lives in Rome.
