THE BARCELONA CONNECTION IBD

Sinopse

A murder. A kidnapping. A lost Salvador Dal¡ painting. Just 36 hours to resolve all three.EVERY CRIME SCENE IS A WORK OF ART.Benjamin Blake is no ordinary detectiveá...Specialising in the criminal underworld of stolen and forged art, things donâÇÖt always go the right way for Benjamin.áBut when they donâÇÖt, he has a stubborn determination to put them right.Within hours of being sent to Barcelona to authenticate a possible Salvador Dal¡ painting, Benjamin is left stranded without his cell phone at a service station alongside a bloody corpse in the early hours of the morning, after being savagely attacked with his hire car stolen, together with the painting.Helped and hindered by the fiery Elena Carmona, pursued by a psychopathic hitman, Benjamin becomes the prime suspect in a politically motivated kidnap and murder. All this on the eve of Barcelona hosting a G20 summit and UN climate change conference, with the police in hot pursuit fearing a wider terrorist threat.From Nëmes in the South of France, across the border to the sweltering humidity of Girona, Barcelona, Figueres and Cadaqués,áThe Barcelona Connectionáis a fast-paced, gripping page-turner sprinkled with black comedy, blending the real with the surreal, art crime and mistaken identity ... and where the clues at the crime scene mightájustábe the mirror image of a long-lost work of art ...