by Roberto Ampuero · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789563250947
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«El alemán de Atacama» is the crime novel by Roberto Ampuero, third instalment in the detective Cayetano Brulé series, published by Debolsillo in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Private detective Cayetano Brulé travels to San Pedro de Atacama, where a German aid worker named Willi Balsen has been found murdered. The official version speaks of a robbery, but a German journalist hires Brulé to investigate what happened. The investigation leads him to a web that may involve drug trafficking, illegal trade in archaeological pieces of the Atacameño culture and the dark operations of a multinational in the desert, with the death of a deputy in a plane crash as a new element of tension.
Third instalment in the detective Cayetano Brulé saga. Originally published in 2002 as «El alemán de Atacama»; this Debolsillo paperback edition came out in 2013.
Recommended for readers of crime and mystery fiction, particularly those who already know the previous adventures of Cayetano Brulé.
Roberto Ampuero is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019. His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo ) and Pasiones Griegas. His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English. In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions. Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.
