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Antonio Yammara, a young lawyer in Bogotá, befriends the enigmatic ex‑pilot Ricardo Laverde in a run‑down billiard hall. An unmarked tape and a secretive past lead Antonio into a web of revelations, culminating in Laverde’s violent death on a street corner. Surviving the shoot‑out, Antonio’s investigation grows into an obsession that takes him back to the early 1960s, a time when marijuana smuggling set the stage for the rise of the cocaine trade. His search forces him to confront the horrors that once suffocated an entire generation of Colombians and to meet Laverde’s daughter as he pieces together a tangled history of friendship, murder and national turmoil.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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