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August Riordan #5
Bleak House Books
November 2009
On Sale: November 1, 2009
Featuring: Melina Rivero; Chris Duckworth; August Riordan
271 pages
ISBN: 1606480561
EAN: 9781606480564
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Mystery Private Eye
The odyssey of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron--the Argentine
first lady
made famous in the play and the movie Evita--was as
remarkable in
death as it was in life. A few years after she succumbed
to cervical
cancer, her specially preserved body was taken by the
military
dictatorship that succeeded her deposed husband Juan.
Hidden for
sixteen years in Italy in a crypt under a false name, she
was
eventually exhumed and returned to Buenos Aires to be
buried in an
underground tomb said to be secure enough to withstand a
nuclear
attack. Or was she? When San Francisco private eye August Riordan engages in a
flirtation
with a beautiful university student from Buenos Aires, he
witnesses
her death in a tragic shooting and is drawn into mad hunt
for Evita's
remains. He needs all of his wits, his network of friends
and
associates, and an unexpected legacy from the dead father
he has never
known to help him survive the deadly intrigue between
powerful
Argentine movers and shakers, ex-military men, and a
mysterious woman
named Isis who is expert in ancient techniques of
mummification. The fifth novel in the August Riordan series, The Big
Wake-Up plunges
everyman PI Riordan and his sidekick Chris Duckworth into
their most
terrifying and anguishing case ever.
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