Showing results for "Panama" in Literature & Fiction

Chester Pomeroy is a onetime rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.

Ex-mercenary, pirate, and gun-runner Dante Bogart knows he's screwed the pooch after he hands one of his shady employers a biological weapon that made the dead rise from their graves, laugh like hyenas, and feast upon the living. Dante tried to blow the whistle via a tell-all video that went viral - but that was before the black ops boys deep-sixed him at a secret interrogation site on the Panama-Colombia border.

Las redes comerciales del mundo entero están en peligro: un grupo terrorista amenaza con volar las compuertas del Canal de Panamá a menos que se les paguen quinientos millones de dólares. La forma de evitarlo pasará por una aventura internacional llena de intriga, de un ritmo endiablado y urdida con la misma prosa trepidante a la que Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa nos tiene acostumbrados.

Norbert Briscoe, financial wizard, friend of presidents, and toast of the jet set, is alive and well and living in exile in Costa Rica. The proceeds of his swindles, thefts, and international money manipulation made him a wanted man in the U.S. But now he is putting together his biggest deal - one that will guarantee his own safety, grant him a complete pardon, and allow him to retain his huge fortune. He's going to buy the Panama Canal!

Adéntrate en un viaje por las más fascinantes leyendas y relatos de Panamá. En la voz de Arturo Lezman, escucharemos las narraciones panameñas que han dado forma a nuestra identidad cultural. Con una narrativa inmersiva y envolvente, cada episodio te transportará a un mundo donde la realidad y la fantasía se entrelazan, manteniendo viva la tradición oral de nuestra tierra. Descubre las historias que han cautivado generaciones y forman parte del alma de Panamá.

Alberto has been alone for the majority of his life, making his way as a restaurant worker and at the beck and call of wealthy and entitled Don Antonio. This time for hire, Alberto arrives at Antonio’s summer house prepared to attend to its regular maintenance. Instead he finds only Antonio’s heartbroken wife, Lola, and a task that could alter his loyalty to his employer forever.