Buena con la rana

Kate Snow es contratada como enfermera en la lujosa mansión de los Carruth para cuidar a su hija Elinor, aquejada de una extraña enfermedad mental, de la que nadie de su familia se libra pues es como un estigma que les marca desde hace varias generaciones.

Bert Amandale is a horror novelist; he lives in Provence with his wife and teenage daughter. His best friend, Chucks Basil -a rock star- decides to move to Provence, and things start to get complicated, due to Chucks' dark past and his difficult relationship with Bert's wife. This book's frantic, murky plot renders it a masterful work of psychological intrigue.

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...

Premio novela Plaza Mayor 2004. El autor (La Habana, 1926) es periodista y fue embajador de su pais en Francia, Ha recibido dos veces el Premio de la Critica en Cuba. La Habana es protagonista y escenario de esta novela en que frustracion, delirio, santeria, jineteras, desarrollan la vida de la ciudad, negada a la decrepitud.