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Hollow Mountain

Spike Sanguinetti seriesbook 3 of 5Next:Sleeping Dogs(2015) →

'Very original, and brilliantly rendered ... a rare and enviable talent' - William Boyd

The late-morning sun beats down on the Rock of Gibraltar as bored tourists photograph the Barbary Apes. A child's scream pierces the silence as she sees a monkey cradling a macabre trophy. A man's severed arm.

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In the narrow streets of the Old Town below, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti's friend and colleague is critically injured in a mysterious hit-and-run. Spike must drop everything and return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case defending a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits.

As Spike battles to save his business, he realises that his investigations have triggered a terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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