num_pages: 240
description: Antonio Jauma, an old acquaintance, desperately wants to get in touch with Pepe Carvalho, but dies before he manages to do so. Jauma's widow has good reason to believe that her husband's death is not what it seems. And who better to investigate than Pepe Carvalho, a private eye with a CIA past and contacts with the Communist Party? Manuel Vazquez Montalban lives in Barcelona, Spain where he was born in 1939. He is a journalist, novelist and creator of Pepe Carvalho, a fast-living, gourmet private dectective. who also stars in Murder in the Central Committee, An Olympic Death, Offside and Southern Seas.
language: English
title: The Angst-Ridden Executive
titlecomplete: The Angst-Ridden Executive (A Five Star Title)
characters: Pepe Carvalho
genres: Crime, Hard Boiled, Thriller, Noir, Spain, Spanish Literature, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 698
series: Pepe Carvalho
publisher: Serpent's Tail