Politiken
"Davidsen has written a breathless and tough tale, a political thriller as black as Spanish coffee and as fascinating and bloody as a bullfight."
SUSANNA YAGER, Sunday Telegraph
"From its calm beginning the book develops into a powerful story with a bitter and violent denouement"
Book Description
A dramatic political thriller from one of Denmark's finest crime writers.
Product Description
Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film. But now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that these people will kill to get? Lime is a Danish paparazzo, living in Madrid. For more than 20 years he has stalked and captured the rich and famous on film, making vast sums of money from exposing their secrets - the more salacious the image, the bigger the fee. But lately he's been thinking of giving it up. His wife and child have changed his life, and now he dreams of doing a job that his daughter can be proud of. Then he goes on a routine assignment, snapping a Spanish minister out sailing with his mistress, and suddenly his world is turned upside down. When a fire destroys his home, but not all of his photographs, Lime sets out to discover a motive and finds himself drawn into the complex and terrifying web of international terrorism. (20020529)
From the Publisher
A dramatic political thriller from one of Denmark’s finest crime writers.
From the Back Cover
Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film. But now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that these people will kill to get? Lime is a Danish paparazzo, living in Madrid. For more than 20 years he has stalked and captured the rich and famous on film, making vast sums of money from exposing their secrets - the more salacious the image, the bigger the fee. But lately he's been thinking of giving it up.
Then he goes on a routine assignment, snapping a Spanish minister out sailing with his mistress, and suddenly his world is turned upside down. When a fire destroys his home, but not all of his photographs, Lime sets out to discover a motive and finds himself drawn into the complex and terrifying web of international terrorism.
About the Author
LEIF DAVIDSEN was born in 1950. He spent 25 years as a radio and TV correspondent, and was for a time correspondent in both Spain and Moscow. He published his first novel in 1984 and has written full-time since 1999. (20020529)
