Publisher Description
Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet. A remarkable tale, The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. A sweeping story set to the irresistible beat of the drug smugglers' ballads, it encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, as its heroine's story unfolds. Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next. Then the call comes. In order to survive, she will have to say goodbye to the old Teresa, an innocent girl who once entrusted her life to a pinche narco smuggler. She will have to find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcos-a woman she never before knew existed. Indeed, the woman who emerges will surprise even those who know her legend, that of the Queen of the South.
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About Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo
Pérez-Reverte’s
bestselling books, including The Club
Dumas, The Flanders Panel, The Seville Communion, and the Captain
Alatriste series, have been translated into thirty-four languages in fifty
countries and have sold millions of copies. Pérez-Reverte was born in 1951 in
Cartagena, Spain, and now lives in Madrid, where he was recently elected to the
Spanish Royal Academy. A retired war journalist, he covered conflicts in
Angola, Bosnia, Croatia, El Salvador, Lebanon, Libya, Nicaragua, Romania, the
Persian Gulf, and Sudan, among others. He now writes fiction full time.
About Lina Patel
Kathleen O’Neal Gear and her
husband, W. Michael Gear, have
written over twenty international bestsellers which have been translated into
twenty-one languages. Their novel People of the Raven won the Golden
Spur Award in 2005. Separately and together they have written more than forty
books. In addition to writing both fiction and nonfiction, the Gears operate an
anthropological research company called Wind River Archaeological Consultants
and raise buffalo on their ranch in northern Wyoming.