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Laddar... The Marseille Caper (2012)av Peter Mayle
   Books Read in 2017 (1,623) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  clue | May 30, 2022 |    ) Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 | ) farrhon | Aug 14, 2021 | Not terribly exciting. I knew it was meant to be light and not very dramatic but, to be honest, I was pretty bored from the first page to the last page. It was a book group read and not too difficult so I finished it. I'm not interested in the other books in the series. The author does put a lot of detail into Marseille history and food and drink. It almost seemed out of place in this book, but I did find that part interesting. (  ) Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 | This is book two in the Sam Levitt crime caper series. I haven’t read the first one yet, and this book references what happened in that book, so perhaps I should have read them in order. But, C’est la vie! Sam Levitt is a former corporate attorney who’s been hired to help promote a development in Marseille. Think James Bond with less danger and more emphasis on enjoying life. Beautiful (and smart) girls, fantastic yachts, private jets, mansions with gorgeous sea views, political intrigue, sumptuous repasts, and good wine. Not to mention a couple of Corsicans and a multi-lingual assistant, all adept at playing a role. Stir, add a dash of spice and Voila! ... A fast, fun, romp of a comedy crime caper. Gosh, I miss Peter Mayle! Robin Sachs does a fine job narrating the audio. He sets a good pace and I love his French accent. ( ) BookConcierge | Jul 25, 2019 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML:Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France. At the end of The Vintage Caper, Sam had just carried off a staggering feat of derring-do in the heart of Bordeaux, infiltrating the ranks of the French elite to rescue a stolen, priceless wine collection. With the questionable legality of the adventure—and the threat of some very powerful enemies!—Sam thought it’d be a while before he returned to France, especially with the charms of the beautiful Elena Morales to keep him in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul—the victim of Sam’s last heist but someone who knows talent when he sees it—asks our hero to take a job in Marseille, it’s impossible for Sam and Elena to resist the possibility of further excitement . . . to say nothing of the pleasures of the region. Soon the two are enjoying the coastal sunshine and the delectable food and wine for which Marseille is known. Yet as a competition over Marseille’s valuable waterfront grows more hotly disputed, Sam, representing Reboul, finds himself in the middle of an increasingly intrigue-ridden and dangerous real-estate grab, with thuggish gangsters on one side and sharklike developers on the other. Will Sam survive this caper unscathed? Will he live to enjoy another bowl of bouillabaisse? All will be revealed—with luck, savvy, and a lot of help from Sam’s friends—in the novel’s wonderfully satisfying climax. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Sam Levitt, an American lawyer who no longer practices law, is asked by billionarie Francis Rebout to represent him in an architectural competition in Marseille. A committee will decide who will be awarded the building of a housing development on the last available piece of land there. Rebout needs a front man because he and the person heading the selection committee are not friendly.
Sam takes girlfriend Elena along and they meet up again with a reporter friend in Marseille, Phillipe. For the most part, other characters are Good Guys and Bad Guys, there is a lot of money to be made by the winning developer and the possibility brings out plenty of rogues.
If you've read Mayle before you know he had a love and knowledge of French food and drink and interesting drinking and dining pad the plot. There was a previous book that featured Sam Levitt and Rebout, [The Vintage Caper] and if I run across it I'll read it too. (