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James Bond must take a series of dangerous gambles

are caught up in sinister plots against the royal house

The villagers' lives are inseparable from nature and its enchantments

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott

in that extraordinary clash of civilizations known in the West as the Crusades

Alentejo Blue St. Martin's Press James Bond must take aAlentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to escape; for others the dysfunctional Potts family it is a way of running from trouble (but not eluding it). Vasco, a caf owner who has never