{"product_id":"2940013097537","title":"Tangier","description":"Tangier, a sweeping novel of romance and intrigue set in a fabled North African resort, may remind  readers of the Alexandria Quartet. In this book Tangier is more than just a place; it is a city of  unholy loves. Titled Europeans, Moroccan hustlers, aging former Nazis, decadents of every sort play  out their rituals, competing for stunning lovers and social power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Their schemes and passions are a subject of fascination to the hero of the book, a brilliant  young police inspector. But even as he is fascinated he is also repelled, searching always to  understand  the privileged foreign colony, to unravel its weave of secrets.  He finds the key,  finally, in the person of a beautiful Eurasian woman, whose own mysterious  past he manages to  unveil. Through her eyes he comes to see Tangier in a new way. Sustained by her love he rediscovers  the city and finds a different role in it for himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Against the drama of this love story other characters emerge: An America Consul becomes  embroiled in an affair with his Vice-Consul's wife.  A retired British character actor strives to  preserve his dignity as his friends betray him and he feels an intimation of his death. A Canadian  gossip columnist struggles not to lose himself in the gay world of Tangier. There is a young  Frenchman corrupted by his love for an older woman; a radical Arab surgeon; a fifth-rate Soviet  spy-a \"burnt-out case\"; squabbling writers; cruel social arbiters; a male prostitute named \"Pumpkin  Pie\".\u003cbr\u003e     Watched closely by the police inspector as they slip in and out of each others' lives, these  and other characters ignore the storm that gathers slowly above their town. In the end it sweeps  them up with dizzying force. Tangier is revealed in a violent and dazzling finale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR TANGIER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Publisher's Weekly: \"Colorful - panoramic - an atmospheric novel of conflict, vengeance, intrigue and deceit against the exotic background that is Tangier - a novel which also possesses genuine psychological insights.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Washington Post: \"The city is the main character of this intricate novel in which East and West meet convulsively and with mutual puzzlement. William Bayer keeps scrupulously the narrative promises he has made and implied, the strands woven so cleverly and in such complex patterns, dyed with a strong influence of atmosphere, that one proceeds willingly, even hastily, through the close-packed pages. As the pages turn and evidence accumulates, its hard to avoid the conclusion that what we have on our hands is the work of a moralist. Bayer conceals what he is up to with considerable skill until the reader is firmly hooked and it is too late to back out.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Erie PA Times: \"You can't possibly read the novel Tangier by William Bayer without wanting someday to visit this exotic North African city. Tangier would be worth reading if it were nothing more than a novel of mood, a travelogue, in effect, describing one of the most mysterious cities in the world. But Bayer's Tangier is much more than that; it is also a fine thriller and a psychological novel of considerable insight.\"","brand":"Crossroad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145542156528,"sku":"2940013097537","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013097537_p0.jpg?v=1763576756","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013097537","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}