By J. G. Ballard
In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive imaginative and prescient over the framework of out of date secret. The environment: the swank Spanish inn of Estrella de Mar, the place younger retirees from Europe's colder climes delight in a life-style of never-ending rest. Into the queasy great thing about this man made setting steps Charles Prentice, a London go back and forth author who has come to go to his brother Frank, supervisor of membership Nautico—tennis and swim membership via day, coked-up discotheque by way of evening. Frank is in prison, having confessed to atmosphere an explosive fireplace that has taken 5 alive. yes the confession used to be coerced, Charles lances his personal research. yet Frank isn't attracted to salvation, and the Spanish police don't wish their open-and-shut case corrupted through a meddling Brit. Refusing to desert his campaign, Charles quickly reveals himself drawn into Estrella de Mar's darkish underworld, and as Cocaine Nights speeds up towards its traumatic climax, Ballard once more finds his visionary mastery.
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