{"id":2467,"date":"2020-08-02T19:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:56:37","slug":"r-wilson-small-death-lisbon-spy-thriller-rebinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/r-wilson-small-death-lisbon-spy-thriller-rebinding\/","title":{"rendered":"R Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon &#8211; spy thriller &#8211; rebinding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Robert Wilson<\/b><i>, A Small Death in Lisbon<\/i> (1999); winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. 1\/12 signed limited of twelve copies rebound in leather with handmade marble sides; signed on limitation page with a new introduction approved by the author.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>Genre: Historical Crime<\/em>\u00a0and spy thriller in the mould of Graham Greene and Eric Ambler; overlapping espionage, detection, police procedural and crimes during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Robert Wilson\u2019s body of work combines intelligent plotting, sharp language, taut character and place descriptions, a feel for the hazards that life may throw at human relationships, as well as insights into the dark side of political events and big business plus his trademark grasp of national identities and other ways of life with Spain and Portugal featuring prominently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>A Small Death in Lisbon<\/i> (1999)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The grand scale of the past rolling into the present in <i>A Small Death<\/i> is achieved with two seemingly unconnected plotlines becoming entwined. One is the German SS scheme to extract a mineral from Portuguese mines for war production; the second is the case of a modern-day murder of a schoolgirl. Both plots have memorable characters: German \u201cfixer\u201d and go-between Klaus Felsen and detectives Z\u00e9 Coelho and Carlos Pinto his partner. The first plot unfolds over several time periods in which loyalty and trust are undermined through underhand scheming. The crimes are nasty and unforgivable, yet the ongoing cover-up &#8211; over generations &#8211; is shown to be a cruel injustice. Can countries which have rightist dictatorial regimes ever be accountable? &#8216;&#8230; history is not what you read in books. It&#8217;s a personal thing, and people are vengeful creatures, which is why history will never teach us anything.&#8217; Dr Aquilino Oliveira (from the novel). The rebinding quickly sold.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon (1999); winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. 1\/12 signed limited of twelve copies rebound in leather with handmade marble sides; signed on limitation page with a new introduction approved by the author.<br \/>\nGenre: Historical Crime\u00a0and spy thriller in the &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-robert-wilson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon - spy thriller - rebinding - SCORPION PRESS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/r-wilson-small-death-lisbon-spy-thriller-rebinding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"R Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon - spy thriller - rebinding - SCORPION PRESS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon (1999); winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. 1\/12 signed limited of twelve copies rebound in leather with handmade marble sides; signed on limitation page with a new introduction approved by the author. 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