ROBERT WILSON is the author of numerous novels, including The Company of Strangers and A Small Death in Lisbon, which won the Gold Dagger Award as Best Crime Novel of the Year from Britain's Crime Writers' Association. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece, Portugal, and West Africa.
PRAISE FOR A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON"Turns a local murder case into a taut international thriller . . . with considerable, nail-biting skill."--Time"A suspenseful, intricately plotted, violent and steamy tale. You will turn the last page of this compelling novel out of breath." --The New York Times"Wilson has flushed out history with complex characters and a captivating story."--San Francisco Examiner and ChroniclePRAISE FOR THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS"Absorbing and brilliantly written, [The Company of Strangers] is caviar for the cognoscenti. And for the general reader too."--Los Angeles Times"Wilson's thriller is complex, chilling, and cleverly written as he dissects the murky world of espionage, where the players are maneuvered by their ruthless masters like pawns on a chessboard." --Chicago Tribune
Proving that even the most talented authors can have an off day, Wilson (A Small Death in Lisbon, etc.) has come up with a long, dense, often brilliantly written but finally off-putting and depressing story, which starts with the grisly murder of a Seville restaurant tycoon. Parts of the novel work wonderfully: an interview between Javier Falc"n, the chief of Seville's homicide squad, and the victim's young widow, crackles with wit and electricity as she gets more out of him than he does out of her. And Falc"n (whose late father, a famous painter, had links to the dead tycoon going back to their days in the Foreign Legion in Tangiers during the Spanish Civil War) is often a fascinating figure-when he's not imploding with the weight of his discoveries about his father's past or the stress of his job and a recently failed marriage. Descriptions of a ranch where fighting bulls are bred and of a bullfight are worthy of Hemingway, as are scenes from life in Seville during Holy Week. But in the end, there's too much blood, too many old journals, too much torture and depravity to absorb and process into art and/or entertainment. (Feb. 3) FYI: A Small Death in Lisbon won a CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
PRAISE FOR A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON "Turns a local
murder case into a taut international thriller . . . with
considerable, nail-biting skill."--Time "A suspenseful,
intricately plotted, violent and steamy tale. You will turn the
last page of this compelling novel out of breath." --The New
York Times "Wilson has flushed out history with complex
characters and a captivating story."--San Francisco Examiner
and Chronicle PRAISE FOR THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
"Absorbing and brilliantly written, [The Company of
Strangers] is caviar for the cognoscenti. And for the general
reader too."--Los Angeles Times "Wilson's thriller is
complex, chilling, and cleverly written as he dissects the murky
world of espionage, where the players are maneuvered by their
ruthless masters like pawns on a chessboard." --Chicago
Tribune
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