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Drumbeat – Madrid
Drumbeat – Madrid
Drumbeat – Madrid
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In Spain for a wedding, Drum must rescue the kidnapped bride
Although a fugitive from twenty-six world governments, Axel Spade has minimal trouble crossing the border into Spain. Though briefly arrested, the guards let him go when they learn the identity of his future father-in-law: Colonel Santiago Sotomayor, whose name can open the lock of any Spanish dungeon. And so Spade and his best man, Washington PI Chester Drum, cross the frontier. Sotomayor is not thrilled to see his daughter become the sixth Mrs. Spade, but he has given his begrudging consent. The wedding party comes off like any jet-set gathering, complete with one of the fiancée’s ex-lovers making threats against Spade’s life. But one key piece never arrives: the bride. She has been kidnapped, and to get her back, Drum and Spade will pit their wits against the toughest thugs and slipperiest bureaucrats that Fascist Spain has to offer.
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Release dateApr 17, 2012
ISBN9781453252604
Drumbeat – Madrid
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Stephen Marlowe

Stephen Marlowe (1928–2008) was the author of more than fifty novels, including nearly two dozen featuring globe-trotting private eye Chester Drum. Born Milton Lesser, Marlowe was raised in Brooklyn and attended the College of William and Mary. After several years writing science fiction under his given name, he legally adopted his pen name, and began focusing on Chester Drum, the Washington-based detective who first appeared in The Second Longest Night (1955). Although a private detective akin to Raymond Chandler’s characters, Drum was distinguished by his jet-setting lifestyle, which carried him to various exotic locales from Mecca to South America. These espionage-tinged stories won Marlowe acclaim, and he produced more than one a year before ending the series in 1968. After spending the 1970s writing suspense novels like The Summit (1970) and The Cawthorn Journals (1975), Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008. 

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    "Drumbeat Madrid" is the eighteenth out of twenty books in the top- notch Chester Drum series. It is a smoothly written, hard-edged, mystery/espionage/men's adventure series.

    "Drumbeat Madrid" takes place in . . . You guessed it: Spain. Move over Hemingway. Here's a new recounting of the running of the Bulls in Pamplona. Mix that together with murder, kidnapping, family betrayals, a missing fortune, and the repressive Franco regime and there's quite a story.
    Drum is in Spain as the companion and best man of fellow adventurer Axel who is about to net his sixth wife, the sensuous high Castilian lady whose father was once a captain of the guardia. It is a story filled with adventure and nonstop action in this exotic locale and lingering in the background is the running of the Bulls, a weeklong party in northern Spain. A first-rate story.

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