Big Red Tequila, Rick Riordan
Big Red Tequila, Rick Riordan
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Big Red Tequila

Author: Rick Riordan

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2011

Synopsis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Everything in Texas is bigger … even murder. Meet Tres Navarre—tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, and unlicensed PI, with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson “Tres” Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father’s murder behind him. Now he’s back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians’ games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It’s obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet’s nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, is missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father’s murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo. “Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own.”—Chicago Tribune

About Rick Riordan

Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and former teacher of English and History. His career started with teaching in various schools in Texas, after earning h I s double major from the University of Texas at Austin. His favorite subject that he taught in almost every class was Mythology, since he enjoyed it and most students really enjoyed it. That interest gave way to his very popular series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy focusing on Egyptian mythology. In 2014 came The Heroes of Olympus, which was the sequel to the Percy Jackson series about Roman and Greek mythology.

Twentieth Century Fox purchased the rights to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and released a full feature film in February of 2010. Riordan has written many successful book series for children and adults. His newest series, Magnus Chase and the God's of Asgard begins in October of 2015, with the release of the first book, The Sword of Summer, focusing on Norse mythology.

Riordan lives in Boston with his wife and their two sons, who inspired the Percy Jackson series through its beginnings as a bedtime story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anirudh on February 09, 2023

Join Jackson "Tres" Navarre (Percy Jackson's name seems to be Rick Riordan's tribute to his first ever protagonist), P.I. extraordinaire, armed with ostensibly drool-worthy cocktail recipes, as he kicks-ass and, ahem, tests the versatility of the hood of a Buick...along with his girlfriend (it's com......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi on August 31, 2018

Rick Riordan, the brilliant author of Percy Jackson and the Olympiads. Excellent young adult books! But if you think this book will have a young adult feel, you'd be wrong. This book is very adult. And it won awards in 1998. So it is kinda amazing that he turned his brilliance to young adult books.......more

Goodreads review by Robert on August 12, 2012

What I liked about this book is that Riordan authentically knows San Antonio. Anyone who has lived there any time at all can follow in the mind's eye the travels around town, can taste the food at the restaurants, can rejoice that the speed trap is no longer in that spot, can appreciate the precise......more

Goodreads review by Mailis on August 05, 2010

I cannot imagine the pleasure of having a bestselling genius like Rick Riordan as your literature teacher, but i think the rate of cutting classes must be real low and the energy in the class high... Tres Navarre, seems the poor guy doesn't get any slack in this series at all, in a way the writing re......more

Goodreads review by Gosia on February 07, 2017

Riordan ma świetny styl pisania - przyjazny, łatwy, połączenie akcji z humorem, co rzadko się zdarza. Widać, że potrafi pisać nie tylko dobre młodzieżówki. Bohater, którego wszyscy chcą zabić, a ty go polubisz (i jego kota) Sięgne po kolejne książki.......more

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