Blowback (Enzo Files, #5)

Peter May

When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars.  Instead, on arri...ival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made.  Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.   Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.  As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop.  But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef - a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic--also leads to strange parallels with his own life.  And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.
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Peter May sa preslávil najmä atmosférickými trilermi zo škótskeho prostredia, no sem-tam si odskočí aj do iných krajín. V prípade série Enzo je to Francúzsko, hoci ani tu sa nevyhneme škótskym koreňom. Ústredný hrdina pochádza práve odtiaľ a má rovnaké priezvisko ako hlavná postava inej autorovej série - Finn Macleod. Zem galského kohúta ponúka množstvo motívov a špecifických regiónov a Peter[...]

  ANOTACE: Když nejlepší francouzský šéfkuchař Marc Fraysse svolá novináře z celého světa, aby učinil šokující prohlášení, proslýchá se, že mu hrozí ztráta jedné ze tří prestižních michelinských hvězd. Při příjezdu do jeho odlehlé restaurace na vulkanické náhorní plošině ve střední Francii však novináře přivítá zpráva, že kulinářský génius byl zavražděn a své poselství už [...] The post[...]

When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars.  Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made.  Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.  

Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.  As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop.  But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef - a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic--also leads to strange parallels with his own life.  And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.