Shear

Shear

Tim Parks

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2011
ISBN:
9780099572596
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An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit corruption lust and tragedy in Tim Parks’ mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him.

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