Alfredo de Gallegos

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Mary Dear: Redux (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

It is 1951 and a storm is raging in Guayaquil when Edward Hannah boards a plane on its way to Peru's capital, Lima and so begins a tale of pirates, treasure islands, looted Nazi gold, terrorists and KGB assassins. Hannah is Joseph Keating's best friend who dies in Austria at the end of WWII as a result of a mysterious car accident leaving him with a treasure map and an enigmatic black notebook that belonged to a U-Boat commander. At the start of the New Millennium Elliott Shepherd, a journalist and adventurer, finds himself in possession of the map and the notebook and sets off to find the treasure. In London he meets Natalia, a beautiful Chechnyan art dealer who is involved with Esteban Blanco, a Colombian drugs baron. Elliott Shepherd is dragged down into an underworld that he is not prepared for where the risks of death are high but where the pay-off is a king's ransom.

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Autor

Born in 1942 in El Salvador of a Salvadorian father and Costa Rican mother. His father died in 1948 and his mother returned with her young family to Costa Rica to live with her parents and there they stayed until her appointment in 1955 as Costa Rica's Ambassador to England. That same year, his mother travelled to London to take up her position accompanied by Alfredo and his younger brother. In 2008, after a long and varied working life, redundancy forced him to retire and he decided to indulge a long-held ambition to write a book. He duly sent a partially written first draft, which, with Darren's help and encouragement and that of Alfredo's wife and family, eventually led to the completed manuscript of his first novel, The Mary Dear.

Asked what he likes, Alfredo will readily admit to being an avid reader. He speaks his native Spanish as well as English, Italian and, what he calls a modicum of French and loves to read in all those different languages. His tastes include all types of fiction, the classics and biographical works of all kinds.

Alfredo lives in Spain with his wife and has a grown-up married daughter and a newly acquired grandson whom, he says, has brought him and his wife a brand new lease of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781907565328
• Artikelnr.: 40092438