Buenos Aires, Argentina. A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the nearby Rio de la Plata. The passengers are reduced to sleeping in the corridors of hotels and fall easy prey to the city's criminal class, who are always willing to take a wealthy tourist hostage. The first to go missing are a Colombian drug baron and his girlfriend, apprehended by Federal Police who may or may not be all they claim to be. But criminal celebrities of this calibre are a valuable commodity, and their abductor soon finds that the couple has been lifted from under his nose. Into the confusion steps Walter Carroza, a weary but honest cop. With his sidekick and confidante, Veronica Berutti, a policeman's widow and crusading lawyer, he embarks on an investigation that will lead him from the shanty markets of Buenos Aires' Bolivian quarter through layer upon layer of corruption towards the 'Holy Land', a theme park based on ancient Palestine, where a killer with a grisly taste for memorabilia lurks.

Holy City

Orsi, Guillermo

Maclehose

A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Río de la Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by Buenos Aires' criminal classes. As the kidnapping of three foreign businessmen sends stock markets into freefall, the job of solving the chaos falls onto the weary shoulders of Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza of the serious-crime squad. But top of his agenda is former Miss Bolivia Ana Torrente. Why are the bodies of the men who try to take her to bed always found minus a head?

MacLehose Press

It is December 2001, and Argentina is in economic meltdown. While the country wallows in corruption, cynicism and indifference, Gotan, an ex-cop from the Federal Police, lives in the past. He cannot forget the beguiling woman who briefly set alight his life - she disappeared as soon as he revealed he had worked for the 'National Shame'. Gotan is called urgently late one night to a friend's coastal retreat. He arrives too late: his friend is dead and his girlfriend has vanished. Using all his resources to find the girl, Gotan finds himself embroiled in a plot that goes to the heart of Argentina itself. Though no longer part of the force, Gotan is still a cop by nature. But his is a dangerous undertaking: after all, no-one loves a policeman.

No-One Loves a Policeman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Un político es ejecutado a la luz del día en un barrio marginal a las afueras de Buenos Aires. Una reina de la belleza busca la ayuda de una abogada que ha enviudado a balazos en dos ocasiones. Un crucero de turistas encalla en el fangoso Río de la Plata: el manjar está servido para una banda de secuestradores. Entre los turistas, un barón colombiano de la droga y su amante son el plato fuerte. Un coleccionista de cabezas humanas desvela entretanto a dos policías, enfrentados en un duelo que poco tendrá que ver con la ley y mucho con sus lealtades y decepciones. Buenos Aires, como un cayuco colmado de fugitivos de sucesivos desastres, navega sin rumbo por un mar sin playas ni horizontes. Esa deriva es la materia prima con la que Guillermo Orsi construye su Ciudad Santa; seductora, violenta... impactante. Con una galería de personajes para el recuerdo, Ciudad Santa es la absorbente y vertiginosa novela de un país que, cuando todo parece haber sido dicho y aunque pretenda callar lo evidente, habla a través de sus muertos.

Ciudad Santa

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Almuzara

When he learns that an old friend, a low-life called Chivo Robirosa, has been murdered, Sebastián Mareco feels drawn to investigate, no matter the risks to himself, as a means of escaping his own demons and coming to terms with his past.

Suenos de Perro (Genero Negro) (Spanish Edition)

Umbriel

Tripulantes de un viejo bolero / Crew of an old bolero (Colección Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

De LA Flor S.R.L. Ediciones

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Holy City

Holy City

No-One Loves a Policeman

Ciudad Santa

Suenos de Perro (Genero Negro) (Spanish Edition)

Tripulantes de un viejo bolero / Crew of an old bolero (Colección Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)