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Allmen and the Koi
The Allmen series – over one million copies sold!
The bestselling crime novel series about the gentleman crook Allmen and his assistant Carlos has sold over a million copies in German alone and was first adapted for TV in 2017 by UFA fiction.
In the sixth episode of the stylish series Allmen’s International Enquiries investigates on Ibiza, the Mediterranean island of the super-rich.
An anonymous invitation lures Allmen to an exclusive property in Ibiza. An old man awaits him by a large pond and shows him his valuable many koi. One of the trusting fish – the most valuable one – has disappeared.
Allmen’s International Enquiries receives the brief of finding ›Boy‹, worth almost a million Euro. Allmen and his crew find a way of discreetly accessing the exclusive world of the island’s high society, and gain insight into a peculiar passion for collecting.
224 pages
2019
978-3-257-07075-0
»Amusing and with a wonderfully ironic voice, Suter describes Allmen’s koi fishing trips with a fantastic sense of place, thanks to Suter’s own experience of life on Ibiza.«
»You can’t help but like him, this well-educated, talented, degenerate, maudlin, destitute snob, who wouldn’t survive one day without Carlos and Maria.«
»Martin Suter describes a great banquet in appetising detail, in which delicacies are served in a daring fusion of Japanese and Mediterranean.«
»The charm of this story, which can easily be devoured on a long train journey, is in its attractive nonchalance, the kind all successful confidence tricksters possess.«
»It’s worth reading for its ruminations over the appropriate get-up or appropriate drink alone.«
»In short: A book that captivates you in an instant.«
»It’s so relaxing to see this fly-by-night guy, who fights so hard to stay at the top, doing his detective work.«