The Angst-Ridden Executive

Introducing one of crime fictions most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounterback when Carvalho still worked for the CIA. Jauma was a womanizer, according to a friend, of the least pleasant sense, and the police have decided that the murder is the work of an unhappy pimp. But Carvalho doggedly pursues his own phlegmatic investigation, with time out for his signature book burning (Sartres Critique of Dialectical Reasoning; Sholokovs And Quiet Flows the Don), cooking (leek soup and a freshly-caught steamed turbot), and running with his girlfriend Charo, whose last name he cant remember.