Reina Del Sur

Summary: "The phone rang and she knew they were going to kill her" is how this action-filled best-selling novel starts. Internationally acclaimed writer Arturo P?rez-Reverte, has crafted another intense, dramatic, literary suspense tale ?this time his hero is a woman named Teresa Mendoza who is nicknamed "The Queen of the South" and "The Mexican" by the authorities of three continents. After her boyfriend, a pilot employed by... drug lords, is murdered, she begins creating an empire with mafias from Spain, France, Italy and Russia in the male-dominated world of drug trafficking. [read more]