Shadows Across America, Guillermo Valcarcel
Shadows Across America, Guillermo Valcarcel
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Shadows Across America

Author: Guillermo Valcárcel, Kit Maude

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Unabridged: 21 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/01/2019

Synopsis

A man’s search for a missing girl leads him across borders and through a landscape of urban violence in this timely, propulsive, and brilliantly imagined thriller.Ethan is living a solid, rational life as a bail bondsman in Florida when he’s compelled to make a seemingly irrational decision: abandon his job and his girlfriend and head south to rescue the daughter of his ex-lover, Michelle. She appears to have been kidnapped by the Mara—vicious street gangs ripping apart the fabric of Central American life—and there’s every reason to believe the girl is dead already. Except for the one that Ethan has been hiding from everyone: she is calling to him in his dreams with three desperate words…I’m still alive.What begins as an urgent mission to save her soon pulls Ethan into a subterranean culture of fear, corruption, and human trafficking with a surreal connection to the most unspeakable crimes of the twentieth century. Suddenly Ethan’s past has come back to haunt him—especially his relationship with Michelle and a passion that was as dangerous as it was intoxicating. Now, heeding impossible cries for help from a lost child, Ethan embarks on a journey that devolves from dreamscape to a nightmare from which there may be no return.

About Guillermo Valcárcel

Guillermo Valcárcel was born in Madrid. He worked in the construction industry by day and studied filmmaking at night until 2008, when he moved to Costa Rica, where he currently lives and works as a filmmaker. He also dedicates his time to writing and illustrating. He is the author of another thriller, Counterfeit, as well as The Wave That Hit Spain, an influential essay that launched his writing career.Kit Maude is a Spanish-to-English translator and editor based in Buenos Aires. His translations of stories by Latin American authors have been featured in Granta, the Literary Review, and The Short Story Project, among other publications. He has translated several great Argentinian and Uruguayan writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Armonía Somers, Julio Cortázar, Antonio Di Benedetto, and Adolfo Bioy Casares. He was born in Hong Kong and received a bachelor’s degree in comparative American studies from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thebooktrail

Shadows across America A book of two parts. On one hand, it’s a solid thriller set in the murky underworld of the drugs trade in central America. On the other, a novel with a plot line which later on gets lost in the jungle along with the guerrillas. The thriller aspect is really good however. A man......more

Goodreads review by Mandy

For a thriller, and I have to admit to not being a great fan of the genre, this started quite promisingly. A young man sets out on a perilous quest to find the daughter of an ex-partner who has been kidnapped in Central America. The South American mafia, the Mara, are involved somehow, and not surpr......more

Goodreads review by Julie Escobedo

Intense story but compelling I enjoy a good mystery and adventure so I started reading this book. It pulled me in with many twists and turns in the plot. It gave me a lot of insight into the horrible business of international kidnappings of young victims for sordid reasons. The last third of the book......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

I. Um. Hmmm. I don’t know what to say about this book. A promising beginning and a satisfying (albeit incredibly depressing) ending leads me toward a favorable review. But then throw in the nazis and the supernatural and the god awful graphic violence, and then you have ... this. A book that will st......more

Goodreads review by Alex Turnbull

Rollercoaster of violence and psychodrama Hard to stop reading this action-packed novel set in Central America about child abduction but much more besides. A long book, the characters are not always credible, the action often far-fetched, but you are gripped by the bizarre underworld the writer has d......more

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