La bicicleta de Leonardo
Paco Ignacio Taibo II

FICTION | 2020 | 376 pages

Why is the bicycle that Leonardo da Vinci invented 400 years before Macmillan one of the keys to this story? What is José Daniel Fierro, a fifty-something crime novelist, doing wandering through Ciudad Juárez, madly in love with a teenage American basketball player who had a kidney removed after being kidnapped? Does this story begin in Saigon, during those three days in April when Jerry thought anything was possible before boarding the last helicopter leaving the American embassy? Or does it originate in that other novel he refused to finish, in which the Angel of Death, with his two Star revolvers, stormed the streets of anarchist Barcelona in 1921 with bullets, leaving the employers organization’s gunmen empty-handed? These and other questions intertwine unexpectedly in one of the author's most gripping novels.

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