by Roberto Ampuero · Verticales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492781010
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«Halcones en la noche» is the spy novel by Roberto Ampuero, published by Verticales in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
The CIA contacts detective Cayetano Brulé to locate the agent tasked with assassinating Fidel Castro. The plot begins with the failure of Operation Foros and the arrest of General Horacio de la Serna, and spans Chile, Germany, Russia, Mexico, the United States, and Cuba amid conspiracies and espionage.
Fifth installment in the detective Cayetano Brulé series; this edition belongs to the Biblioteca Cayetano Brulé collection.
For readers of crime and spy fiction interested in political conspiracies and international settings.
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.
