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The Queen of the South

By Arturo Perez-Reverte

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| Hardcover | 9780399151859

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Book Description

The critically acclaimed, beloved, and bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Nautical Chart delivers his most magniÞcent novel to date.

Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiContinue

The critically acclaimed, beloved, and bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Nautical Chart delivers his most magniÞcent novel to date.

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.

Critics

  • Live crooked, work straight

    The Queen of the South Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Andrew Hurley 435pp, Picador, £16.99 In Spain, the reporter-turned-historical novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte is little short of a national publishing phenomenon. His bestselling Capitán Alatri ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Queen of the South By Arturo Perez-Reverte

    "Reality often pales in comparison to legend," says the investigative journalist in Arturo Perez-Reverte's extraordinary novel The Queen of the South. But here the "reality" and the legend Perez-Reverte has created around Teresa Mendoza become one ri ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • I love the attention that Perez Reverte dedicates to details.
    I like the fact that his characters are not only individuals following an action, but they are often full of sentiments and human characteristics well described.
    And most of the time his novels are the result of deep studies, th ... (continue)

    I love the attention that Perez Reverte dedicates to details.
    I like the fact that his characters are not only individuals following an action, but they are often full of sentiments and human characteristics well described.
    And most of the time his novels are the result of deep studies, thus they recreate the environment and the time quite well.

    I loved the woman in this novel.
    How it's possible to take the side of the bad guy in a story?
    Still I liked her very much indeed.

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  • I'm not really interested in the drug trafficking scene and all that goes with it. I finished this book only because I started it.

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    Jane said on Jul 26, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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