The King of the Rainy Country |
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| Author:
| Freeling, Nicolas |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4482-0706-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Reader |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.99 |
Book Description:
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This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon a time, in a rainy country, there was a king...' The end had not happened in a rainy country, but on a bone-dry Spanish hillside, three hundred metres from where Van der Valk had left a lot of blood, some splintered bone, a few fragments of gut, and a ten-seventy-five Mauser rifle bullet. No one had broken any laws. But a handsome, middle-aged millionaire had disappeared with a naked girl. And Van der Valk was...
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This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon a time, in a rainy country, there was a king...' The end had not happened in a rainy country, but on a bone-dry Spanish hillside, three hundred metres from where Van der Valk had left a lot of blood, some splintered bone, a few fragments of gut, and a ten-seventy-five Mauser rifle bullet.
No one had broken any laws. But a handsome, middle-aged millionaire had disappeared with a naked girl. And Van der Valk was given the job of finding out why.