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Beatnik detective Sunny Pascal is an expert at two things: cocktails and finding trouble. And when the filming of John Huston’s The Night of the Iguana hits a few snags with its sexed-up, star-studded cast in a Puerto Vallarta paradise, producer Ray Stark brings Sunny in to chill out the set. But matters get tipsy when someone’s found deader than dead, shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members.
Now Sunny’s got to keep his Hollywood stars out of jail long enough for him to solve the case. But the trouble doesn’t stop with murder. The Mexican mafia and local newspapers wage a tension war against the hedonistic Americans, and if John Huston has anything to say about it, Sunny’s got to be the one to keep the show on the road. Only Sunny will be doing it his way: with a martini in one hand and a Colt in the other.
Prolific Mexican comic book writer and Turn of the Screw Award–winner F. G. Haghenbeck gives us the spins with Bitter Drink, a tense tale of crime, passion, and cocktails.
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"very entertaining. I felt like i was in a detective movie, the way it is related, it creates an ambiance. The most impressive aspect as a whole is that it is not fiction, it is based on what actually happened in that set."
— Nataly (4 out of 5 stars)
Bitter Drink Listener Reviews
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" Reading this short novel made me rent Night of the Iguana. Book was crazy history about Puerto Vallarta.. murders, jewel heists, land grabbing (by the Movie Moguls), divorce, Liz and Richard, and cocktails. I'll have a kamikaze. "
— Barb, 11/17/2013 -
" An excellent job integrating cocktail themes to chapters and bringing to life the very specific slice of history during the "Night of the Iguana" filming. A top shelf effort. "
— Larry, 8/8/2013
About F. G. Haghenbeck
F. G. Haghenbeck was born in Mexico City. He’s been an architect, museum designer, freelance editor, and television producer. He’s also the comic book writer of Crimson and Alternation, as well as a Superman series for DC Comics. Encouraged to try his hand at writing crime novels, he wrote Bitter Drink, which won the Turn of the Screw Crime Novel Award in Mexico.
About Tommy A. Gomez
JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.