The Buenos Aires Quintet

Resumen del libro

When Pepe Carvalho's uncle asks him to find his son, Raúl, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is tango, Maradona, and the disappeared' and he has no desire to find out more.
But family is family and soon Carvalho is in Buenos Aires, getting more caught up in Argentina's troubled past than is good for anybody. As he gets nearer to finding Raúl, he begins to realise the full impact of the traumas caused by a military junta who went so far as to kidnap the children of the political activists they tortured.
A few excellent tangos, bottles of Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignon and a sexy semiotician are no compensation for the savage brutality Carvalho experiences in his attempt to come to grips with Argentina's recent history.

Reviews
A suitable requiem for a character and his writer' Guardian

A crime fiction bonanza' The Herald

The most metaphysical gumshoe on the streets the plot is as concerned with exploring capitalism's malignancy as it is with corpses and femmes fatales' The Times

This is nothing less than world-class crime fiction' Big Issue in the North

An inventive and sexy writer Warmly recommended' Irish Independent

Montalbán is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed' Times Literary Supplement

Biografía del autor

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939-2003), autor multidisciplinar, cultivó la narrativa, la poesía, el ensayo, la crítica y el periodismo, aunque alcanzó el éxito nacional e internacional con la serie de novelas protagonizadas por el detective Pepe Carvalho. Considerado como uno de los maestros del género policiaco en lengua castellana y como uno de los más influyentes intelectuales españoles del siglo XX, ganó, entre otros, el Premio Nacional de Narrativa, el Premio de la Crítica y el Premio Nacional de las Letras.