Moon over Tangier
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murder
For Francis, life with David grows more dangerous by the day. When sober, he is charming, but when he drinks, he is violent, slashing Francis's paintings and threatening to gut the painter, too. When David leaves London for Morocco, Francis cannot help but follow this man whom he loves but can no longer trust. In Tangier, they find a thriving community of expats who guzzle champagne while revolutionaries gather in the desert. But in Morocco's International Zone, death does not wait for rebellion.
After Francis identifies a friend's Picasso as a fake, the police call him in to investigate the forger's demise. If he refuses, they will throw David in jail, where inmates and the DTs will kill him within the week. Between the bustle of the city and the emptiness of the desert, Francis finds that in Morocco, even the fakes can be worth killing for.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Law's irresistibly readable third and final Francis Bacon mystery (after 2013's Prisoner of the Rivera), the Anglo-Irish figurative painter and bon vivant follows his on-again-off-again lover, David, to post-WWII Tangier, Morocco a paradise of "pretty boys who swanned along the beachfront or lived in the brothels or haunted alleyways." It's also a hotbed of smugglers, spies, and revolutionaries. Bacon soon finds himself an unwilling accomplice in the local police commissioner's ill-conceived scheme to entrap a gallery owner suspected of killing an art forger whom he was doing business with. While the resourceful Bacon barely avoids being murdered, he finds himself in the crosshairs of the KGB, the international police, and a recently bereaved widow bent of revenge. Exotic locales, adept characterization, an intriguing historical backdrop, and brisk pacing make this novel highly entertaining but it's Law's witty, promiscuous, and refreshingly candid sleuth that makes it so memorable.
