Charles Brett
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Enrique and Lili, the latter a Canadian ex‐banker, produce premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil in southern Spain´s resplendent olive region of Úbeda. They barely survive in a ferocious, competitive and corrupt market.Oleg and Andrei muddle through on illegally earned funds in Estonia. They hatch an extraordinary plot to become rich. Their aim is to ruin one‐third of the global olive harvest, that grown in Spain. Their ally: the olive fruit fly.Ana...
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Davide returns to Spain to grow an American company's client list. Realising the chances of success are diminishing and suspicious about why, he invites previous business partner Caterina to Madrid to explore what might be wrong. Caterina brings Emilia, her multi-talented and bi-sexual friend.The three work with Ana, who is from Madrid. She introduces her cousin, a senior policeman investigating national crimes involving corruption and money laundering....
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The Vatican introduces HolyPhones into confessionals in Europe and the Americas. These smartphones connect those seeking confession to the Vatican Confessional Call Centre, part of a Church initiative to reduce the workload of its priests and generate new income.An alliance - of a female Spanish member of Opus Dei, an American lady whose father runs a southern fundamentalist church, an Israeli pro-Settler technology genius and an ex-banker-turned-...
4) Resurrection
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Kjersti, Norwegian extreme runner and journalist, arrives in Cyprus to run the 350 kilometres across the island in a fortnight. Aris and Iphi, two ambitious but junior local journalists, must report on every stage of Kjersti and her ex-boyfriend's run.Eleni is the architect niece of the head of the local Orthodox Church. Archbishop Ioannis has her constructing an immense building to dominate Nicosia and make his memory immortal, although he must find...