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Salamandra : novela / José Abad.

Van Pelt Library PQ6651.B255 S25 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Abad, José, 1967- author.
Series:
Colección Tapa negra.
Colección Tapa negra
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Assassins--Fiction.
Assassins.
Mafia.
Italy--Sicily.
Missing children--Fiction.
Missing children.
Mafia--Italy--Sicily--Fiction.
Sicily (Italy)--Fiction.
Sicily (Italy).
Genre:
Fiction.
Novels.
Physical Description:
189 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition:
Primera edición: enero de 2021.
Place of Publication:
[Córdoba] : Editorial Almuzara, 2021.
Language Note:
Text in Spanish.
Summary:
Raven es un sicario que recibe el encargo de ir a Sicilia para dar con el paradero de Virginia, una chica huida de casa, y volver con ella a Roma. El problema es que ella es la hija de Matteo Santoro, un antiguo capo de Palermo, y todos ellos --incluido el propio Raven-- siguen teniendo enemigos en la ciudad. Raven, un hombre sin escrúpulos, recuerda una estancia previa en Palermo y sus relaciones con la mafia. Tal como temían, alguien intentará secuestrar a la joven --presumiblemente para pedir un rescate al padre-- y los protagonistas han de huir a través de Sicilia con los secuestradores pisándoles los talones.Fiel a los tipos y ambientes de la novela negra, "Salamandra" evoca también el western clásico. Raven, como el pistolero al que encarnaba John Wayne en "Centauros del desierto", debe adentrarse en territorio hostil para traer de vuelta a la chica raptada por "los pieles rojas". De admirable concisión y sequedad, en la línea de los grandes maestros del género --Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett--"Salamandra" brinda una sólida descripción de los entresijos de la mafia siciliana, tan rigurosamente documentada como contundente en su veracidad.
Raven is a hit man who is commissioned to go to Sicily to find the whereabouts of Virginia, a girl on the run, and return with her to Rome. The problem is that she is the daughter of Matteo Santoro, a former Palermo boss, and all of them - including Raven himself - still have enemies in the city. Raven, an unscrupulous man, remembers a previous stay in Palermo and his relations with the mafia. Just as they feared, someone will try to kidnap the young woman - presumably to demand a ransom from the father - and the protagonists have to flee through Sicily with the kidnappers at their heels. True to the types and settings of the crime novel, "Salamander "also evokes the classic western. Raven, as the gunman played by John Wayne in "Desert Centaurs", must venture into hostile territory to bring back the girl kidnapped by "the Redskins." Of admirable conciseness and dryness, in the vein of the great masters of the genre - Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett - "Salamandra" provides a solid description of the ins and outs of the Sicilian mafia, as rigorously documented as it is forceful in its veracity.
ISBN:
9788418205590
8418205598
OCLC:
1229089798

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