Infernal Paradise - Gowans, Glyn
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Set in the near future, happily married Jane and Mike Oakheart - successful London lawyers in their early-thirties - arrive for a summer break at Ca'n Pau, the idyllic Mallorcan villa of Mike's top client, famed German writer, Werner Stumpf. Although Ca'n Pau stands on what the locals call 'Hamburg Hill' - reputedly the world's greatest concentration of German millionaires - Stumpf has tempted the Oakhearts with the chance of meeting his young French neighbour, Hollywood superstar Lionel de Tourny. But Hamburg Hill also symbolizes everything the Mallorcans detest - becoming second-class…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Set in the near future, happily married Jane and Mike Oakheart - successful London lawyers in their early-thirties - arrive for a summer break at Ca'n Pau, the idyllic Mallorcan villa of Mike's top client, famed German writer, Werner Stumpf. Although Ca'n Pau stands on what the locals call 'Hamburg Hill' - reputedly the world's greatest concentration of German millionaires - Stumpf has tempted the Oakhearts with the chance of meeting his young French neighbour, Hollywood superstar Lionel de Tourny. But Hamburg Hill also symbolizes everything the Mallorcans detest - becoming second-class citizens on their own island, thanks to uncontrollable immigration pricing them out of house and home. They want independence from Spain, to leave the EU, and get the 'foreigners' out. And so, just as the Oakhearts settle in and begin to discern Stumpf's darker side, the Balearic Republican Army unleashes a wave of terror across the holiday island, trapping thousands of tourists. As a divided Europe squabbles over who should restore order, the rival powers realize that mayhem on Hamburg Hill could serve their very different causes. But when MI6 and the CIA ask the Oakhearts to assist covert Anglo-American operations, relationships are sorely tested.
Autorenporträt
Glyn Gowans was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and read Law at Durham University. He joined a major UK law firm and specialized in intellectual property. After nineteen years with the firm, he took early retirement to write, moving to Bordeaux. Two years later, a finca in the Mallorcan countryside became Glyn's home. Eleven years on the island generated Infernal Paradise, his second satirical novel to be published. In the first, Gloria! Gloria!, Anglo-American corporate warfare brings two billionaires and their dysfunctional adolescent children to Mallorca's magical Balearic neighbour, Formentera, where dramatic events transform their arid lives. Glyn's time in Bordeaux has inspired a third satire, Cut From The Same Cloth, in which fraud and treachery underlie the transformation of an obscure vineyard into a megastar. It will be published shortly. After extensive research, Glyn has also written a biography of Prince George, Duke of Kent, who died in an air crash in 1942 while serving in the RAF.