Benjamin Blake is no ordinary detective ...Specialising in the criminal underworld of stolen and forged art, things don’t always go the right way forBenjamin. But when they don’t, he has a stubborn determination to put them right.Within hours of being sent to Barcelona to authenticate a possible Salvador Dalí painting, Benjamin isleft stranded without his cell phone at a service station alongside a bloody corpse in the early hours ofthe morning, after being savagely attacked and his hire car stolen, together with the painting.Helped and hindered by the fiery Elena Carmona, pursued by a psychopathic hitman, Benjaminbecomes the prime suspect in a politically motivated kidnap and murder. All this on the eve of Barcelonahosting a G20 summit and UN climate change conference, with the police in hot pursuit fearing a widerterrorist threat.From Nîmes in the South of France, across the border to the sweltering humidity of Girona, Barcelona,Figueres and Cadaqués, The Barcelona Connection is a fast-paced, gripping page-turner sprinkled withblack comedy, blending the real with the surreal, art crime and mistaken identity ... and where the cluesat the crime scene might just be the mirror image of a long-lost work of art ...