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Can I read The Pretty How Town on EtoBox?
The Pretty How Town by Nicolas Freeling is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Pretty How Town about?
For Henri Castang, banishment to the EC world in Brussels, in what sounds an empty advisory post, is both a promotion and the end of his police career. Yet he is still supposed to keep his ears and eyes open, to ‘permeate that nest of cryptomarxists’ — a situation he at first thought ludicrous. He soon finds it less funny. His wife Vera’s trip home to Czechoslovakia sets his teeth on edge; so do the mysterious notes that arrive, randomly, to haunt him. And then Harold, an English jurist and Castang’s boss, finds himself in danger of a grave criminal charge. His wife, his Belgian mistress and his friends are all drawn into the drama...Life in the cosmopolitan setting of EC headquarters proves more than Henri Castang or Vera bargained for. This extraordinary world in which human pain disregards all the rules of bureaucracy merits — and gets — and extraordinary novel. Timely, elegant, brilliantly idiosyncratic; only Nicolas Freeling could have written it.
Who reads The Pretty How Town?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nicolas Freeling
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780356205564
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Mystery