Saving Picasso
by Mark Skeet
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Pub Date 27 Mar 2013 | Archive Date 27 Apr 2013
Troubador Publishing Ltd | Matador
Description
“A SPY STORY QUITE UNLIKE ANY OTHER”
Barcelona, 1940. Franco is dead. The communists have emerged victorious from the Spanish Civil War and an uneasy peace reigns over Europe. International Brigade veteran Richard Clare returns to Spain to cover the Barcelona Olympic games for a London newspaper.
Broke, restless and adrift since the end of the war, Clare is intent on finding his former girlfriend, from whom he was acrimoniously parted two years previously. But soon Clare finds himself at the heart of a more sensational story. A plot by Picasso to defect to the west.
Pitched somewhere between Robert Harris’ Fatherland and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, Saving Picasso is an intelligent, gripping read that will appeal to fans of spy thrillers and historical fiction.
Barcelona, 1940. Franco is dead. The communists have emerged victorious from the Spanish Civil War and an uneasy peace reigns over Europe. International Brigade veteran Richard Clare returns to Spain to cover the Barcelona Olympic games for a London newspaper.
Broke, restless and adrift since the end of the war, Clare is intent on finding his former girlfriend, from whom he was acrimoniously parted two years previously. But soon Clare finds himself at the heart of a more sensational story. A plot by Picasso to defect to the west.
Pitched somewhere between Robert Harris’ Fatherland and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, Saving Picasso is an intelligent, gripping read that will appeal to fans of spy thrillers and historical fiction.
A Note From the Publisher
Mark Skeet has been a screenwriter for 20 years, working with Paramount, Universal, Working Title and the BBC amongst others. His credits include Jason and the Argonauts with Dennis Hopper, Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon and the international TV series Titanic: Blood and Steel with Derek Jacobi. He also published the first Time Out city guide to Barcelona.
Advance Praise
“Mark Skeet’s first novel sucks you in and keeps you in its grip as it twists and turns towards its thrilling conclusion. Pacy, evocative and with a terrific conceit – Saving Picasso is a winner” Harry Enfield
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781780886824 |
| PRICE | £1.99 (GBP) |
