The spies
By: Luis Fernando Verissimo ; translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780857051127; 9780857384379
Subjects: Humorous stories; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Work titles: Espiões
Description: A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger. As he pieces together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two Martelli brothers - gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian interior. Surely her dark outpourings are a cry for help? One by one, he dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa - a town totally obsessed with five-a-side football - to investigate and to bring her to safety.
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese.