The Spanish Game. Charles Cumming

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      Copyright

      Harper

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      First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd. 2006

      THE SPANISH GAME

       Copyright © Charles Cumming 2006.

      Extract from The Talented Mr Ripley by Anthony Minghella

       (screenplay copyright © The Ant Colony Ltd., 2000) reproduced by kind permission of Methuen Publishing Ltd.

      Charles Cumming asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007416936

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780007416929 Version: 2018-09-27

      Dedication

      For my mother and Simon, my step-father

      Epigraph

      ‘Madrid is a strange place anyway. I do not believe anyone likes it much when he first goes there. It has none of the look that you expect of Spain…Yet when you get to know it, it is the most Spanish of all cities, the best to live in, the finest people, and month in and month out the finest climate. While other big cities are all very representative of the province they are in, they are either Andalucian, Catalan, Basque, Aragonese, or otherwise provincial. It is in Madrid only that you get the essence…It makes you feel very badly, all question of immortality aside, to know that you will have to die and never see it again.’

      Ernest Hemingway

      Contents

       Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Author’s Note

      Map

      One

      Exile

      Two

      Baggage

      Three

      Taxi Driver

      Four

      The Keeper of the Secrets

      Five

      Ruy Lopez

      Six

      The Defence

      Seven

      Churches

      Eight

      Another Country

      Nine

      Arenaza

      Ten

      Level Three

      Eleven

      California Dreaming

      Twelve

      Pillow Talk

      Thirteen

      Development

      Fourteen

      Chicote

      Fifteen

      The Disappeared

      Sixteen

      Peñagrande

      Seventeen

      The Lost Weekend

      Eighteen

      Atocha

      Nineteen

      Middlegame

      Twenty

      Dry Cleaning

      Twenty-One

      Ricken Redux

      Twenty-Two

      Barajas

      Twenty-Three

      Bonilla

      Twenty-Four

      El Cochinillo

      Twenty-Five

      Our Man in Madrid

      Twenty-Six

      Sacrifice

      Twenty-Seven

      Shallow Grave

      Twenty-Eight

      Dirty War

      Twenty-Nine