Details

Subject(s)

• Tourists—Africa, Northwest—Fiction [Browse]
• Missing persons—Investigation—Africa, Northwest—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Thrillers (Fiction) [Browse]
• Novels [Browse]

Series

• Narrativa hispánica (Alfaguara (Firm)) [More in this series]
• Casos de Juan Urbano ; 6 [More in this series]
• Narrativa hispánica
• Los casos de Juan Urbano ; 6

Summary note

• "Recién publicada su última novela, el profesor de instituto y detective Juan Urbano busca en Ceuta información para un libro sobre la Marcha Verde y el abandono del Sáhara por parte de España, pero también sobre un negocio lucrativo: la venta de arena del desierto a compañías inmobiliarias y turísticas. Su plan es visitar con su novia y futura esposa, Isabel Escandón, los campamentos de refugiados de Tinduf, en Argelia, y el antiguo Protectorado español en el Magreb, donde iniciaron su epopeya varios empresarios que en unos casos fueron perseguidos y arruinados, tras la independencia, y en otros comenzaron allí un imperio aún en marcha. Pero un nuevo caso sale a su encuentro cuando un cliente misterioso le encarga localizar a un hombre y un tesoro: el soldado que recibió la orden de matar a Hassan II durante un golpe de Estado y que cuando lo tuvo a su merced le perdonó la vida; y un documento que firmó el rey y que, de ver la luz, arruinaría su leyenda, algo que quiere evitar a cualquier precio su hijo, Mohamed VI. Dos niñeras españolas que lo salvaron durante el asalto a sangre y fuego al palacio de Sjirat pueden ser la clave de un secreto que lleva medio siglo oculto. El sexto caso de Juan Urbano lleva al lector de un Marruecos enigmático a Ceuta y Melilla, de París y el norte de Europa a la Granada de Las mil y una noches, en una trama apasionante llena de aventuras, dobles identidades y peligros: tiras del hilo y al final aparece la araña" -- Page 4 of cover.
• "Having just published his latest novel, high school teacher and detective Juan Urbano is looking in Ceuta for information for a book about the Green March and the abandonment of the Sahara by Spain, but also about a lucrative business: the sale of desert sand to companies real estate and tourism. His plan is to visit with his girlfriend and future wife, Isabel Escandón, the refugee camps of Tindouf, in Algeria, and the former Spanish Protectorate in the Maghreb, where several businessmen began their adventures, who in some cases were persecuted and ruined, after the independence, and in others they started an empire there that is still in progress. But a new case comes to meet him when a mysterious client asks him to locate a man and a treasure: the soldier who was ordered to kill Hassan II during a coup d'état and who, when he had him at his mercy, spared his life. ; and a document that the king signed and that, if it saw the light, would ruin his legend, something that his son, Mohamed VI, wants to avoid at all costs. Two Spanish nannies who saved him during the fire and blood assault on Sjirat's palace may be the key to a secret that has been hidden for half a century. The sixth case of Juan Urbano takes the reader from an enigmatic Morocco to Ceuta and Melilla, from Paris and northern Europe to the Granada of One Thousand and One Nights, in an exciting plot full of adventures, double identities and dangers: strips of thread and at the end the spider appears" -- English translation of page 4 of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267).

ISBN

• 9788420456294
• 8420456292

OCLC

1329299699

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