Drumbeat – Madrid
by Stephen Marlowe
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Pub Date Apr 17 2012 | Archive Date Jun 10 2013
Open Road Integrated Media | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Description
In Spain for a wedding, Drum must rescue the kidnapped bride
Although a fugitive from twenty-six world governments, Axel Spade has minimal trouble crossing the border into Spain. Though briefly arrested, the guards let him go when they learn the identity of his future father-in-law: Colonel Santiago Sotomayor, whose name can open the lock of any Spanish dungeon. And so Spade and his best man, Washington PI Chester Drum, cross the frontier.
Sotomayor is not thrilled to see his daughter become the sixth Mrs. Spade, but he has given his begrudging consent. The wedding party comes off like any jet-set gathering, complete with one of the fiancée’s ex-lovers making threats against Spade’s life. But one key piece never arrives: the bride. She has been kidnapped, and to get her back, Drum and Spade will pit their wits against the toughest thugs and slipperiest bureaucrats that Fascist Spain has to offer.
This book was originally published in 1966.
Although a fugitive from twenty-six world governments, Axel Spade has minimal trouble crossing the border into Spain. Though briefly arrested, the guards let him go when they learn the identity of his future father-in-law: Colonel Santiago Sotomayor, whose name can open the lock of any Spanish dungeon. And so Spade and his best man, Washington PI Chester Drum, cross the frontier.
Sotomayor is not thrilled to see his daughter become the sixth Mrs. Spade, but he has given his begrudging consent. The wedding party comes off like any jet-set gathering, complete with one of the fiancée’s ex-lovers making threats against Spade’s life. But one key piece never arrives: the bride. She has been kidnapped, and to get her back, Drum and Spade will pit their wits against the toughest thugs and slipperiest bureaucrats that Fascist Spain has to offer.
This book was originally published in 1966.
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Advance Praise
“Very few writers of the tough private-eye story can tell it more
accurately than Mr. Marlowe, or with such taut understatement of
violence and sex.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Drum sleuths to his own beat; he is a strong private investigator, who hooks the audience in each tale, short or long.” —Harriet Klausner Book Reviews
“Marlowe’s buoyant skill and credibility lie in the way he has put breath into [his] characters.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Drum sleuths to his own beat; he is a strong private investigator, who hooks the audience in each tale, short or long.” —Harriet Klausner Book Reviews
“Marlowe’s buoyant skill and credibility lie in the way he has put breath into [his] characters.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781453252604 |
| PRICE | $5.99 (USD) |
