Product Description

The beautiful Allcia hatches a plot to ensnare the wealthy foreign visitors to Castro's Cuba through an elaborate scam involving a broken bicycle and her voluptuous charms. Taking choreographed spills in front of expensive foreign cars, Allcia squeezes the maximum sympathy and cash out of her clueless, sexually aroused, victims. Add to this mix the guile of her mother who is in on the scam, and the sky's the limit for Allcia. However, when she attempts to trap Victor, a convicted bank robber masquerading as a Canadian businessman, they quickly realise each other's nefarious motives and embark on a misadventure of sex, cross-dressing, kidnapping and death by olive. Adios Muchachos is an erotic, brutally funny romp through the underworld of post-revolutionary Cuba.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #316151 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-24
• Original language: Spanish
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
'Pulp fiction in Castro's Cuba. A picaresque novel with sex, scheming, and, well, more sex.' Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park 'Daniel Chavarria is a prince of a fellow, larger than life and twice as much fun.' Lawrence Block, author of Eight Million Ways To Die

About the Author
Daniel Chavarria is a Uruguayan writer with two passions: Classical literature and whores. For years he was a professor of Latin, Greek, and Classical literature, devoting much of his time and energy to researching the origins and evolution of prostitution. He has won numerous literary awards around the world including a 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award and the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original for Adios Muchachos.

Customer Reviews

call me calculating babe
i won't reveal the plot too much - suffice to say that it revolves around the sensuous, lushous Alicia who is literally 'sex on legs.' she, for many years, has refused to become a boring unoriginal prostitute - it is definately not her style. Instead she invents this scam whereby she poses, lavisciously on a bicycle and learns how to fall off without hurting herself in the process. The scam involves falling off in front of wealth tourists who drive her home where she, always with style, seduces the man. Even her mother is involved who makes a fantastic meal and proves that a way to a mans heart is through his stomach. Alicia takes care of the physical side of things and lines up many potential men around the world one of whom she will marry and live the life of luxury.

all goes well until she falls in love with victor, who has a couple of secrets himself. now i will leave it there just telling you that its the plotting that makes this book fantastic, a heist that you'll never forget, erotic and humorous on every page, with as much cold calculating as you've ever wished for. my favourite bit is when "someone" must be defrosted and thawed out to take a picture for the ransom demands and theres this great diologue between two of the characters that hails right out of reservoir dogs or pulp fiction - the i'm hungry, lets get a taco bit - leave this dead decomposing guy thaw out etc.... read it - i'll never tell you the twists - not only is there a truckload but also they are meant only to be read.