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El gumshoe. Set in a coastal Madrid of the future, in which Anglo is the compulsory tongue of the American-Iberian federation, and a genetic engineering company, run by the ruthless Manex Chopeitia, is all-powerful, Reig's hero, Carlos Clot, is a welcome gust of the familiar. He's a gumshoe straight out of Chandler, down to the pithily expressed, lemon-bitter worldview and long-term relationship with a bottle of scotch and a pack of Luckies.Reig takes delight in stirring cliché and surreality together. As well as spying on adulterous couples and tracking down junkies, Clot is hired to find a character who has escaped from an author's latest novel, a lurid Western. He muses on Pirandello and Unamuno as often as he penetrates the dystopian cityscape where he encounters the femmes fatale and the betrayals that infest noir fiction. It's these juxtapositions that make Reig's novel so enjoyable, like The Big Sleep via Philip K Dick and Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Blood On The Saddle by Rafael Reig, out now published by Serpent's Tail.
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comment by Daseyram
Jan 8, 2008
very interesting
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