What starts as a heist gone wrong opens into a story that lays bare the corrupt machinations of the world's shipping industry. Those we think provide the guardrails against high-crime on the high-seas—the insurance industry, the major banks, governments—are complicit in schemes and willing to look the other way, even when one of their own is murdered by a car bomb. The authors go into great detail on events that will raise your eyebrows in astonishment.
My big discovery this year were the works by the Spanish author, Arturo Perez-Reverte, and this was the third book of his which I've read so far, all in Spanish. He can seamlessly weave history with fiction in a way that will have you checking the Internet to see what was fact and which characters were real. Falco is a fantastic spy novel about the politics and treachery of the Spanish Civil War. The protagonist, Lorenzo Falco, arms smuggler recruited by the Fascists, finds himself at the center of a double-cross by his own side, in cahoots with their mortal enemies, the Reds. We're introduced to Falco, who we see as a slick, romanticized Bond-type womanizer, until we're with him when he has the unpleasant task of beating a confession out of a suspected turncoat. The narrative throughout can be brutal. Weaselly government hacks, psychopathic secret agents, naive partisans, and a femme fatale are pawns where even the most loyal of patriots are fodder for murderous intrigue.
Un libro protagonizado por su personaje más fascinante desde el capitán Alatriste.
Violencia, tramas de poder, suspense, lealtad y pasión conforman esta extraordinaria novela de lectura adictiva.
«El mundo de Falcó era otro, y allí los bandos estaban perfectamente definidos: de una parte él, y de la otra todos los demás.»
La Europa turbulenta de los años treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX es el escenario de las andanzas de Lorenzo Falcó, ex contrabandista de armas, espía sin escrúpulos, agente de los servicios de inteligencia. Durante el otoño de 1936, mientras la frontera entre amigos y enemigos se reduce a…
Robert Crais is one of my favorite authors and this one does not disappoint. Crais deliver a great mystery plot around a current popular theme, a young female podcast influencer, but puts his own spin on the story. His PI buddies, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, as experienced as they are, still managed to get out-foxed by criminals with much to hide. If you love LA noir, this book is for you.
Felix Gomez, detective vampire and enforcer for the vampire underworld, is recruited by fellow vampire enforcer, Jolie, to prevent their annihilation by young killer with immense psychotronic powers. Their only hope for salvation is to rescue the lover they both shared, the intensely sexual vampire, Carmen, held prisoner by a race of warrior extraterrestrials on the distant Planet Pleasure. Coyote, the trickster vampire, plus his mom, La Llorona, the Mexican boogeyman, El Cucui, and a Navajo skinwalker make for powerful though unreliable allies in this intergalactic throw down. A shadowy government agency and an alien civil war throw wrenches into the Felix's already rickety plans.
