The Barcelona Connection

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A murder. A kidnapping. A lost Salvador Dalí painting. Just 36 hours to resolve all three.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>EVERY CRIME SCENE IS A WORK OF ART.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Benjamin Blake is no ordinary detective</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> ...</span></p><p><br></p><p>Specialising in the criminal underworld of stolen and forged art things don't always go the right way for Benjamin<em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when they don't he has a stubborn determination to put them right.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Within hours of being sent to Barcelona to authenticate a possible Salvador Dalí 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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>From Nîmes in the South of France across the border to the sweltering humidity of Girona Barcelona Figueres and Cadaqués <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Barcelona Connection </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is 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 might </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>just</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> be the mirror image of a long-lost work of art ...</span></p>