Full name: The Discreet Hero: A Novel

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Culture: Latin-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374146740 0374146748

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil... Similar books: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa Deep Rivers by Jose Maria Arguedas The Winners by Julio Cortazar Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout