Malinche

Al almirante Blas de Lezo, con solo tres mil hombres y seis navíos a su cargo, se le encomienda en 1741 la defensa de Cartagena de Indias. Frente a él se prepara el desembarco más audaz de todos los tiempos: Inglaterra ha enviado doscientas naves y casi treinta mil hombres para arrasar la ciudad. Cualquiera en su sano juicio se habría rendido de inmediato. Cualquiera excepto Lezo. Blas de Lezo (1689-1741) era Mediohombre, el estratega más genial de todos los tiempos. Esta es su historia y la historia de una defensa heroica y singular: el sitio de Cartagena de Indias. Una gran novela de...

Los niños que ya no sonríen es una historia compleja, adictiva, plena de recovecos y giros inesperados. Es difícil condensar en unas líneas el contenido de esta novela. Digamos simplemente que toda la ciudad de Bilbao se convierte en el espejo de una sociedad corrupta, capaz de albergar el mal absoluto. Y que el enigma de los niños que ya no sonríen sobrevuela cada página. El impactante debut literario de Fran Santana ha sorprendido tanto a los lectores como a la crítica. Santana ha sido comparado con Stephen King y Stieg Larsson por su capacidad para reflejar la cara más oscura de...

In 336 AD, Constantine leads the Roman Empire, and Christianity has become the official religion. Arius, accused of heresy after the council of Nicea, has regained the emperor's favor. But when he goes to receive the communion that will reintegrate him into the Church, he dies under mysterious circumstances. Gratus has been called upon by the emperor to investigate the death before it destroys the newly formed Church, but he must battle Constantine's demons as well as his own in order to solve the mystery. En 336 AD, Constantino gobierna el imperio romano y el cristianismo se ha convertido en ...

From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. Soon the CIA operative and former Special Forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the same expedition that took Clark...

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...