The fiesta of San Fermín erupts — seven days and nights of wine, drums, and dancing that swallow the town whole. Bulls thunder through the streets at dawn, the first corridas fill the ring, and a beautiful nineteen-year-old matador named Pedro Romero steps onto the sand. Brett can't look away — and soon, neither can anyone.

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A sleepless, drink-blurred night, and Jake takes stock — of money and morality, of what you pay for what you get, of Brett and Cohn and how a person is supposed to live. A quiet, searching pause before the fiesta breaks over them all.

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Back to Pamplona and the gathering storm. Jake and Bill rejoin Brett — and meet her fiancé, Mike Campbell: charming, broke, and dangerous when he drinks. The prize bulls are unloaded, Jake explains the deadly art to come, and Mike, sensing Cohn's devotion to Brett, begins to sharpen his knives.

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Days of trout streams and easy friendship. Jake and Bill fish the Irati, trade the funniest and most tender banter in the whole novel, share wine with an Englishman named Harris, and — for a little while — are perfectly, uncomplicatedly happy. Then the letters arrive, and the world calls them back.

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Up into the hills by bus, wedged among Basque farmers passing wine-skins hand to hand, singing, insisting Jake and Bill drink along. The road climbs into cool green country, far from Brett and the whole Paris knot, to a little inn at Burguete. One of the book's warmest, simplest stretches.

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Pamplona at last — but the plan wobbles. Brett and Mike are delayed, and Cohn, who can't hide how badly he needs to see Brett, chooses to wait for them rather than fish. Jake and Bill leave him to his nerves and set off for the mountains. The calm before the fiesta.

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Jake and Bill head south toward Spain — and Robert Cohn, restless and evasive, insists on coming too. On the train: a crush of cheerful American pilgrims, the slow roll into Basque country, and the first hint that Cohn's summer has held a secret. The tangle they left in Paris is coming with them.

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A new arrival lightens everything: Bill Gorton — funny, warm, and gloriously hungover from a spree across Europe — blows into Paris. He and Jake wander the city and lay their plans: trout fishing in the Spanish hills, then the fiesta at Pamplona, with Brett and her fiancé Mike to follow. Book Two, and the trip south, begins.

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