Sunstroke

by Arthur Hansl


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 25/01/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 320
ISBN : 9781588204639

About the Book

WHEN AN AMERICAN GETS PUT INSIDE
THIS MEXICAN JAIL HE HAS TWO CHOICES:
ESCAPE OR DIE.

TAGGART, a fading soldier of fortune, pulls off the stickup of the century until a double cross puts him behind bars in Mexico’s most notorious prison, where his captors employ a world-class torturer to extract is secrets. There he meets and teams up with . . .

VICTOR, a professional playboy whose rich wife would rather see him in jail than in another woman’s bed. So with one vicious act of betrayal, she puts him in the belly of the beast. All because of . . .

DELILAH, the sensational and beautiful matador, who courts danger with the same passion she feels for Victor, and will risk her life in pursuit of both . . .

THREE for the money, with all the power corruption can buy closing in behind them, because the millions in cash are still where they were hidden . . .

FROM THE ELEGANT YACHTS OF
ACAPULCO’S SUPER RICH TO THE DANK
CELLS OF MEXICO CITY’S LECUMBERRI
PRISON, FATE HAD THROWN THEM
TOGETHER . . . TO PLAN A DARING ESCAPE
AND GET WHAT THEY WANTED MOST:
MONEY AND REVENGE.


About the Author

Arthur Hansl was born in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Florida, and Europe. He went to school in Switzerland and France, as well as in the United States, graduating from Taft School in Connecticut and Washington and from Lec University in Virginia. After three years in the Marine Corps, he went to Mexico for two weeks and stayed for four years, becoming, he'd admit, an accomplished beach bum. He moved from there to California and then on to Europe, arriving in time to enjoy the last years of the dolce vita in Rome, where he became an actor, starring in some forgettable films and doing supporting parts in somewhat better ones. He returned to Mexico in the late sixties for another dozen pictures in half a dozen years, then back to California for a stint in the soap, General Hospital. In recent years, he turned to writing. Storm Warning is his fourth novel. He now lives in both Montecito and Santa Monica, California.

PREVIOUS TITLES BY ARTHUR HANSL:

Freeze-Frame (New American Library)
Sunstroke (St. Martin's Press)
A Call From L.A. (St. Martin's Press)

PRAISE FOR A CALL FROM L.A.:

"...a smart, hip thriller. Hansl has a knowing eye, and he takes us straight into the heart of political intrigue." --T. Jefferson Parker, Author: Laguna Heat

"Hansl depicts an assortment of Southern California habitats, from wealthy movie enclaves to biker camps with dead-on accuracy." --Publisher's Weekly, Nov. 20, 1987