Joe Gores

Joe Gores When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife. What we don't know is how Spade became who he is. Now SPADE & ARCHER completes the picture. 1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, water-front thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen; with murder, other men's mistresses, and long-missing money. He'll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He'll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should've been the perfect crime. And he'll fall in love - though it won't turn out for the best. It never does with dames . . . SPADE & ARCHER is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel - the work of a master mystery writer-destined to become a classic in its own right.

Años después de abandonar la CIA, el francotirador Brendan Thorne es requerido de nuevo por el Gobierno: Halden Corwin, un legendario asesino y mercenario de la guerra de Vietnam ha jurado asesinar al recién elegido presidente de los Estados Unidos, y Thorne es la persona más adecuada para encontrarlo y evitar el magnicidio. Pero pronto descubrirá que ha sido atrapado en una red de mentiras, ambiciones y traiciones peligrosas. Thriller adictivo lleno de revelaciones contundentes, Tigre de cristal dejará al lector sin aliento.

Joe Gores es autor de dieciséis novelas por las que ha recibido múltiples premios, así como guionista de series de televisión tan populares como Colombo, Remington Steele y Kojak. Con Spade & Archer está cosechando un gran éxito; autores de la talla de James Ellroy se han rendido a la brillantez de esta novela. Una novela de un maestro de la novela de misterio, destinada a convertirse en un clásico por derecho propio. Ahora, por fin, el lector aficionado a la novela negra descubrirá cómo el protagonista de El Halcón Maltés, Sam Spade, se convirtió en lo que es.