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With no role in sight and nothing to lose, actor Lou Galloway leaves Los Angeles and heads to Mexico to drown his sorrows in cheap mezcal. But, after a round too many, he soon ends up at a grandiose wedding in the mansion of internationally wanted crime lord, Diego Flores,…

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We first meet Lou Galloway in a bar in Mexico.

Lou is a ‘scorned dreamer’ chewed up and spat out from an acting career in L.A. But when he shares a drink with a stranger wearing a fedora hat; this seemingly chance encounter sets Lou on the adventure of a lifetime. Mistaken for a rogue assassin known as ‘El Flamingo’, he is swept into a dangerous world of Latin-American espionage, where he only has his wits to survive.

El Flamingo is a perfectly crafted sunset-noir novel that engages from the opening page to the satisfying conclusion. Lour Galloway is an…

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German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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