''El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer'' (1989) (English, ''Offside'') is a novel from

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939–18 October 2003) was a prolific Spanish writer from Catalonia: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and a FC ...

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The private detective

Pepe Carvalho Pepe Carvalho is a fictional private detective, the protagonist of a series of novels written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. The character Carvalho has a rich, complex and contradictory personality. The author uses his adventures to describe, ...

is enquiring about a list of death threats arriving after that

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. Founded ...

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