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    Bitter Drink
    Bitter Drink
    Bitter Drink
    Audiobook4 hours

    Bitter Drink

    Written by F.G. Haghenbeck

    Narrated by Tommy A. Gomez

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    TranslatorTanya Huntington
    Release dateJul 24, 2012
    ISBN9781469208572
    Bitter Drink
    Author

    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.

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      This novel will make you think of Raymond Chandler, with its hard-boiled protagonist trying to deal with all of the egos on the set of The Night of the Iguana. There's murder, betrayal, emotional and physical brutality, and lots of drinking. The cocktail recipes introducing each chapter lighten the tone a bit.