The Reluctant Matador: A Hugo Marston Novel

A twenty-something American model, Amy Denum, disappears in Paris. Her father turns for help to his old friend Hugo Marston, the security chief at the American Embassy. Marston makes some enquiries and quickly realizes something is amiss- Amy was not a model, as she claimed, but a dancer at a seedy bar. Now she s in Spain with a guy named Felix. With his friend and former CIA agent Tom Green, Marston heads for Barcelona. aBreaking into Felix s house, the two sleuths encounter a shocking scene- Amy s father, Bart, standing over the dead and battered body of their chief suspect. Though Bart protests his innocence, under the damning circumstances, Spanish authorities arrest him for murder. Then Felix s body disappears from the morgue and Marston receives a grisly package containing human body parts. The two American investigators are faced with their biggest challenge ever- find the real killer, prove Bart s innocence, and locate his missing daughter without getting killed along the way.