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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great...

It's been two months since Will Darling saw Kim Secretan, and he doesn't expect to see him again. What do a rough and ready soldier-turned-bookseller and a disgraced, shady aristocrat have to do with each other anyway? But when Will encounters a face from the past in a disreputable nightclub, Kim turns up, as shifty, unreliable, and irresistible as ever. And before Will knows it, he's been dragged back into Kim's shadowy world of secrets, criminal conspiracies, and underhand dealings.

Elizabeth Bennet, a rookie counterintelligence officer, lands an intriguing first assignment—investigating the CIA's legendary William Darcy, who is suspected of being a double agent. Darcy's charmed existence seems at an end as he fights for his career and struggles against his love for the young woman he doesn't know is watching his every move. Elizabeth's confidence dissolves as nothing is like she planned—and the more she discovers about Darcy, the more she finds herself in an ever-tightening web of danger.

De la mano de la autora cubana finalista del Premio Planeta podemos ahora internarnos en el mundo del glamour en blanco y negro que nos ofrece en El ángel azul, un libro sobre cine, un libro sobre la admiración que siente una espectadora, un libro, finalmente, sobre la forma en que los personajes de la pantalla pasan a formar parte de nuestra vida. Escrito a partir de las vivencias que guarda la autora sobre la película de Josef von Sternberg, en estas páginas se mezclan sus recuerdos de la Habana con la figura de Marlene Dietrich en su papel de cabaretera.