BLOOD ON THE SADDLE - Tapa blanda

Hilarious, a literary Hellzapoppin (Matt Thorne)

A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery (The Times ?A refreshingly unconventional little book which takes the crime novel into a new dimension? a gloriously absurd spoof, amusing, provocative and occasionally touching? Sunday Telegraph ?Eccentric, dizzying and wonderful? Peter Guttridge, Obs peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined X-rays? Time Magazine)

Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who?ve quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people (both ?real? and ?fictional?) in their place.