Historical Thriller America

Having fled to New York following his involvement in a terrible crime, Irish-born Danny McCabe throws in his lot with Nicolas and Lucia Mariani, Corsican siblings who have come to America to make their fortune. In New York the trio get by, earning money from fighting and - on Nicolas Mariani's part - increasingly illicit activity. Lucia has ambitions of becoming an actress, and, following a fight that goes horribly wrong, the three of them head to Los Angeles, the city of dreams.

In 1890 actor John Wilkes Booth - long presumed dead - emerged from 25 years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.

Luglio 1969: il mondo festeggia il primo uomo sulla luna. Probabilmente, gli unici a non rivolgere nemmeno uno sguardo alla tv, in quel buco di posto in Ecuador dove si trovano, sono Fay Fern e suo figlio Wright, nove anni. E probabilmente Wright è l'unico bambino americano a non conoscere il nome di Vincent Kahn, l'astronauta che per primo calca la superficie lunare. Fay, invece, l'ha incontrato quando lei lavorava al bar di una base aerea nel deserto del Mojave dove lui prestava servizio come pilota.

Licenciado en Historia y Diplomado en Estudios Avanzados en la especialidad de Historia Moderna, Mario Escobar (1971-) ha escrito numerosos artículos y libros sobre la Inquisición, la Reforma Protestante y las sectas religiosas. Trabaja como director ejecutivo de una ONG y es director de la revista Nueva Historia para el Debate, colaborando como columnista en distintas publicaciones.

La vida de los jóvenes atenienses es dura: viven una existencia de semiesclavitud que se reparte entre trabajar para los adultos y prepararse para los Juegos de la Guerra. Esta competición a muerte fue ideada tiempo atrás por los Consejos de Ancianos de Atenas y Esparta como sustituto de la guerra entre adultos. Quien gana los juegos tiene derecho a imponer sus costumbres a su rival. El problema es que los espartanos llevan diez años seguidos ganando los juegos, y un legado ateniense, enviado a Esparta para investigar la cuestión, desaparece sin dejar rastro.

The son of Juan Hernan Valdez de Araya and a Caribbean slave, Eduardo, learn that freedom always comes with a price, and that price must be paid by those most deprived of it, the most desirous to have it. Some will sacrifice their all for the sweet embrace of it and for that of those dear to them. Only those that have known true deprivation can appreciate its loving reward of ever-stripped-away choice.