Fatal Pursuit: Bruno, Chief of Police 9

Martin Walker, geboren 1947, ist gebürtiger Schotte und nicht nur Schriftsteller, sondern auch Historiker und politischer Journalist. Er lebt in Washington und im Périgord und studierte Geschichte in Oxford sowie internationale Beziehungen und Wirtschaft in Harvard. Danach war er 25 Jahre lang Journalist bei der britischen Tageszeitung "The Guardian". Heute ist Martin Walker Vorsitzender des Global Business Policy Council, eines privaten Think Tanks für Topmanager mit Sitz in Washington. Er verfasste zahlreiche Sachbücher, unter anderem über den Kalten Krieg, über Gorbatschow und die Perestroika, über Präsident Bill Clinton sowie über das neue Amerika. Martin Walkers Bruno-Romane erscheinen gleichzeitig in zehn Sprachen.

The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic was called the most beautiful car of all time. Only four of them were ever built. A California museum paid $37 million for one; Ralph Lauren bought another; a third was smashed by a train at a level crossing. The fourth disappeared in France during World War 2. It was the car used by British racing ace, William Grover Williams, twice winner of the French and Monaco Grand Prix, who became an undercover agent in Occupied France.
The latest adventure in the Bruno series of mystery novels starts from this true story. Two young men, both racing drivers with a passion for antique cars, compete to find new clues as to the car's hiding place in the Perigord region of France where Bruno is the local chief of police.

When a local researcher turns up dead on Bruno's patch, and French intelligence starts investigating the use of classic car sales to launder money for funding Islamic terrorism, Bruno finds himself once more caught up in a case that reaches far beyond his small town and its people.

With the bucolic charm and gourmet cooking that are the hallmarks of this series, Bruno's latest adventure finds him falling in love again as he races to find the murderer and to track down the fate of the most beautiful car ever made.

The latest adventure in the Bruno series of mystery novels starts from this true story. Two young men, both racing drivers with a passion for antique cars, compete to find new clues as to the car's hiding place in the Perigord region of France where Bruno is the local chief of police.