THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH Paperback - 2005
by PEREZ-REVERTE, Arturo
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Set to the irresistible beat of outlaw ballads, this sweeping story encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal as its heroine's story unfolds. It spans continents from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to the Strait of Gibraltar and Spain.
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- Title THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
- Author PEREZ-REVERTE, Arturo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume, NY
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # 005104
- ISBN 9780452286542 / 0452286549
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Library of Congress subjects Suspense fiction, Drug traffic
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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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- Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 51
