The Reluctant Matador: A Hugo Marston Novel (A Hugo Marston Novel Series Book 5)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00NEUI2P8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 569 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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A native of Hertfordshire, England, he is an assistant district attorney in Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife and three children. Mark Pryor is the author of the Hugo Marston novels The Bookseller, The Crypt Thief, The Blood Promise, and The Button Man, and the true-crime book As She Lay Sleeping.
Pryor is one of the best new voices in crime fiction; and Hugo Marston, one of the most appealing detectives to come along in years.”—DEBORAH CROMBIE, New York Times–bestselling author of To Dwell in DarknessPraise for previous Hugo Marston novels:"Once you've had a bit, you can't wait for more." —OPRAH"The Hugo Marston series now belongs on every espionage fan's watch list." —Booklist"Enough intrigue to satisfy every reader." —RT Book Reviews. “In The Reluctant Matador, Mark Pryor’s Hugo Marston returns in top form—and that is very good indeed
And she headed to Barcelona with some guy she met at the club.With his friend and former CIA agent, Tom Green, Marston heads for Barcelona. Though Bart protests his innocence, under the damning circumstances, Spanish authorities arrest him for murder. Her father, Bart Denum, turns to his old friend Hugo Marston for help. The two sleuths identify the man last seen with the girl, break into his house, and encounter a shocking scene: Bart Denum, standing over the dead and battered body of their mysterious stranger. The two American investigators are faced with their biggest challenge ever: find the real killer, prove Bart’s innocence, and locate his missing daughter—without getting killed along the way.From the Trade Paperback edition.. Marston, the security chief at the American Embassy, makes some inquiries and quickly realizes something is amiss: Bart’s daughter was not a model, but rather a dancer at a seedy strip club. A nineteen-year-old aspiring model has disappeared in Paris
Take a trip to Barcelona Mark Pryor has expanded geographically in this series starring Hugo Marston, chief of security for the American Embassy in Paris. In the fourth in the series and a prequel, THE BUTTON MAN, Pryor placed Hugo in London, and in his most recent fifth in the series, THE RELUCTANT MATADOR, Hugo starts out in Paris but sp. #5 in the Hugo Marston series The author's 2nd novel The Crypt Thief was a 5 star read, this one didn't do it for me - I think it would have made a good buddy movie with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau. Hugo is now working at the American embassy in Paris, he and his CIA partner in crime solving, Tom Green, head off to Barcelona looking for MIA 19. If you're new to the series OutlawPoet This is my first Hugo Martson book. I did feel a little at a loss because of that. I definitely felt like I was reading an already well-established character - one that readers of the series intimately understood, but one that left me just a little bit lost. I didn't really understand who Martson was, why he lived