Bitter Drink, F. G. Haghenbeck
Bitter Drink, F. G. Haghenbeck
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Bitter Drink

Author: F. G. Haghenbeck, Tanya Huntington

Narrator: Tommy A. Gomez

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/24/2012

Synopsis

Beatnik detective Sunny Pascal is an expert at two things: cocktails and finding trouble. And when the filming of John Huston’s The Night of the Iguana hits a few snags with its sexed-up, star-studded cast in a Puerto Vallarta paradise, producer Ray Stark brings Sunny in to chill out the set. But matters get tipsy when someone’s found deader than dead, shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members.Now Sunny’s got to keep his Hollywood stars out of jail long enough for him to solve the case. But the trouble doesn’t stop with murder. The Mexican mafia and local newspapers wage a tension war against the hedonistic Americans, and if John Huston has anything to say about it, Sunny’s got to be the one to keep the show on the road. Only Sunny will be doing it his way: with a martini in one hand and a Colt in the other.Prolific Mexican comic book writer and Turn of the Screw Award–winner F.G. Haghenbeck gives us the spins with Bitter Drink, a tense tale of crime, passion, and cocktails.

About F. G. Haghenbeck

F.G. Haghenbeck was born in Mexico City. He’s been an architect, museum designer, freelance editor, and TV producer. He’s also the comic book writer of Crimson and Alternation, as well as a Superman series for DC Comics. John Huston biographer William Reed encouraged Haghenbeck to transition into writing crime novels, and the result is Bitter Drink, which has already won the Turn of the Screw Crime Novel Award in Mexico.Haghenbeck currently works full time writing novels and editing historical and pop-culture books. He loves eating his wife’s gourmet food, drinking cocktails, reading the noir novels of Raymond Chandler and Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and watching cartoons with his daughter, Arantza.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessy

no tenía muchas expectativas, pero me pareció un libro entretenido. Me gustaron los capítulos con nombres de bebidas y admito se me antojaron varias xD El final no me lo esperaba, lograron engañarme. En general, creo que fue una buena lectura :D......more

Goodreads review by Katy

This review from September was originally posted only on my blog. Copying over here for your enjoyment... Book Info: Genre: Crime Noir Reading Level: Adult Recommended for: Whomever it appeals to Disclosure: I received a free paperback galley from the Amazon Vine program in exchange for an honest revi......more

Goodreads review by Juan

1 día y 140 páginas después, la segundva recomendación del blog amigo. Ya tenía en la mente al autor y al libro, pero por motivos personales no los había leídos. El libro fue totalmente como lo esperaba: suave pero entretenido. Cómo dato curioso nunca había leído una novela noir en un solo día. Es un......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Yeah, that was okay. Clear attempt at evoking old school gumshoe/detective/hard drinking, hard on his luck stories, this one is set in Mexico on the set of Night of the Iguana. It was a fun little mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Esagui

Para mi desgracia me gustó demasiado el personaje principal, sumado a los inicios de cada capítulo, que me distrajo lo suficiente su "incapacidad" y dejarse llevar por la manera que, cuando al fin me topé con el entramado de la novela, me cayó como agua helada de golpe; todo eso se desarrolló frente......more

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