# The Spies

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- Book: [The Spies](https://www.bookquiver.com/luis-fernando-verissimo/the-spies) ([The Spies.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/luis-fernando-verissimo/the-spies.md))
- Authors: [Luis Fernando Veríssimo](https://www.bookquiver.com/luis-fernando-verissimo)
- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-114-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-11-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger. As he pieces together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two Martelli brothers - gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian interior. Surely her dark outpourings are a cry for help? One by one, he dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa - a town totally obsessed with five-a-side football - to investigate and to bring her to safety.