Marcel Duhamel Orden de los libros (cronológico)

"Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.

Jonathan Pine, antiguo soldado del ejército británico, ejerce de director nocturno de un lujoso hotel en Zurich. Una gélida noche de enero las dependencias del alojamiento reciben la llegada de un huésped especial: Richard Onslow Roper, el peor hombre del mundo, un rico, poderoso y temido traficante. Las circunstancias y el peso del pasado conducirán a Pine a infiltrarse en una trama de los servicios secretos, a sumergirse en un entorno de relaciones aún oscurecidas por la larga sombra de la Guerra Fría