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  • Location: Algeciras, Malaga

Night Boat to Tangier

Night Boat to Tangier

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2000s: A tragicomedy drenched in sex and death and narcotics

  • ISBN: 978-1782116172
  • Genre: Hitman/Gangster

What you need to know before your trail

It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder – can it be put together again?

Travel Guide

Travel to Algeciras and Malaga on The Night Boat to Tangier

Maurice and Charlie are a pair of aged gangsters, who we meet waiting  at the Spanish port of Algeciras. They are there to pick up Maurice’s daughter from the boat. She’s been missing for three years , apparently living on some kind of commune across the Mediterranean. (Tangier)

The port is a interesting spot to wait. All kinds of life walk by, spend time here, work here, hustle here and more. An ideal selection of human kind who the two gangsters can interrogate and do deals with, ask about Maurice’s daughter.

Their banter and lifestyle are portrayed well as they wait for the night boat from Tangier :

“She’s a small girl. She’s a pretty girl. She’d probably still have the dreadlocks. Dreadlocks, you know? Bob Marley? Jah Rastafari? She might have a dog or two with her, I’d say. Dog on a rope kind of thing? She’s a pretty girl. She’s twenty-three years of age by now. She’ll be dreadlock Rastafari.

You know what we’re going to need, Charlie?

What’s that, Moss?

We’re going to need the Spanish for crusty.”

 

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Night Boat to Tangier

Destination:  Algeciras, Malaga Author/guide: Kevin Barry  Departure Time: 2000s

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