Product Description

Aldo Bianchi, an Argentine former revolutionary living in Italy, travels to Havana where he meets the beautiful Bini, a young girl working the hotels with great wit and panache. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto R?os, is living under a false identity in Cuba. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sadistic enemy. Daniel Chavarr?a portrays the sensuousness and skullduggery of contemporary Havana, a city that offers erotic thrills to pleasure-seeking tourists even as it hides villains in its humid embrace. While R?os thrives on bribery and corruption, Bianchi is driven by a desire to see justice done. Tango for a Torturer is a political thriller in which bawdy humour coexists alarmingly with chilling evocations of the evils wrought by military dictatorships in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #466472 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"'Daniel Chavarria's perkily air-brushed version of a life among Havana's prostitutes bursts with humour and snappy Elmore Leonard-style prose' Independent 'Black and bawdy Cuban pulp fiction... entirely good-humoured, with some fine ribald moments' Literary Review 'Steamy suspense, comic upsets... and wonderfully sketched characters of ample flesh and blood make this a brutal romp full of guilty delights' Crime Time 'Balancing thrills galore and much violence and sexual debauchery with a subtle philosophical debate, The Eye of Cybele is a wonderfully literate and witty historical adventure, and a major contribution to the genre' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian"

About the Author
Born in Uruguay, Daniel Chavarría was for many years 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 the 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award and the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original for Adios Muchachos.

Customer Reviews

noir at it's best
Chavaria is a master of the noir. if you are interested in sex, suspense, mystery and a great story this is the one for you.
also worth checking ADIOS MUCHACHAS by same writer.
For anybody with an interest in Cuba and the noir genre this is a must.