Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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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......
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2016.
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A dangerous and passionate love affair between an accomplished tango dancer turned elegant thief and a beautiful, intelligent society woman bursts off the page in this epic historical tale of romance and espionage that further establishes #1 bestselling author and Dagger Award winner Arturo P�rez-Reverte as an international literary giant. En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise...
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Captain Alatriste volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
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"In the second adventure of Arturo Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste series, the courageous swordsman-for-hire considers rejoining his old regiment to fight at Breda - but there is a job to do first. A desperate father, Don Vicente de la Cruz, hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. And he can't complain, because the priest has threatened to reveal the man's...
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c2008
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Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he starts painting a grand circular fresco on the inside wall of a tower on the Mediterranean, disturbed by the memories of a woman he can never forget, and an unexpected visit: a man who wants to kill him.
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marzo de 2019.
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Por primera vez un volumen reúne la historia de España escrita por Arturo Pérez-Reverte durante más de cuatro años en su columna Patente de corso del XL Semanal. Un reelato ameno, personal, a ratos irónico, pero siempre único, de nuestra accidentada historia a través de los siglos. Una obra concebida por el autor para, en palabras suyas, divertirme, releer y disfrutar; un pretexto para mirar atrás desde los tiempos remotos hasta el presente,...
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2010
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Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army. Now he lives the comparatively tame-though hardly quiet-life of a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid. Approached with an offer of work, Alatriste is told to go with another hired blade to an unfamiliar part of the city at midnight and wait. They are received by men who explain...
12) La reina del sur
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Biblioteca Arturo Perez-Riverte volume 1/2
Pub. Date
2007
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La mas esperada novela de Arturo Perez-Reverte podria no haber llegado nunca a las librerias. La apasionante historia con la que ratifica sus innegables dotes literarias y un magistral dominio de las tecnicas narrativas quiza pudiera haberse resumido en tres minutos de musica y palabras. Entonces se habria convertido en uno de los muchos corridos que cantan las gestas de los narcotraficantes mexicanos. Pero el escritor espanol mas aclamado dentro...
13) Revolución
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2022.
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"Un hombre, tres mujeres y una revoluciâon. Un viaje al corazâon humano y a la aventura. âEsta es la historia de un hombre, tres mujeres, una revoluciâon y un tesoro. La revoluciâon fue la de Mâexico en tiempos de Emiliano Zapata y Francisco Villa. El tesoro fueron quince mil monedas de oro de a veinte pesos de las denominadas maximilianos, robadas en un banco de Ciudad Juâarez el 8 de mayo de 1911. El hombre se llamaba Martâin Garret Ortiz...
14) Línea de fuego
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2020.
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"En la noche del 24 al 25 de julio de 1938, durante la batalla del Ebro, 2.890 hombres y 14 mujeres de la XI Brigada Mixta del eǰrcito de la Repblica cruzan el ̕ro para establecer la cabeza de puente de Castellets del Segre, donde combatìrn durante diez ̕das. Sin embargo, ni Castellets, ni la XI Brigada, ni las tropas que se le enfrentan en ̕Lnea de fuego existieron nunca. Las unidades militares, los lugares y los personajes que en esta novela...
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2019
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"El arte del mando era tratar con la naturaleza humana, y él había dedicado su vida a aprenderlo. Colgó la espada del arzón, palmeó el cuello cálido del animal y echó un vistazo alrededor: sonidos metálicos, resollar de monturas, conversaciones en voz baja. Aquellos hombres olían a estiércol de caballo, cuero, aceite de armas, sudor y humo de leña. Rudos en las formas, extraordinariamente complejos en instintos e intuiciones, eran guerreros...
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2007.
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Novella about the innocent young Maria, whose bookish interests centre on swashbuckling piratical adventures ; her virginity is for sale at a bordello, until she is rescued by Manolo. A new twist on the Cinderella tale. Includes an account of how the novella became the movie Cachito.
Relato corto, cuento breve, moderna historia de hadas y piratas, de buenos y malos, escrita con una acción trepidante y un humor agridulce y desesperado, "Un asunto...
19) Ojos azules
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2017.
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On the evening of June 30th, 1520, in the outskirts of Tenochtitlán, Mexico suffered the greatest tragedy at the hands of Hernán Cortés during its conquest.The Aztecs taste and relish their next revenge, while the Spaniards are ready to flee under the rain leaving behind the promise of gold for which they crossed the ocean; they must choose, to either take the loot for which so many fought and died for, or flee and save their own lives. But, its...