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This is the official website and blog of the author Marcelo Antinori. You can discover his last novels, sign up to get all the news about the forthcoming books, and if you love to travel between pages, check out the list "Books Worth Reading Around The World."

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2024

The Condor's Riddle

As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. In the latest novel from Brazilian-American author Marcelo Antinori, it takes a village to protect the loved ones of a fallen guerrilla fighter who has been declared dead three times. And behind that enigma lie even more precious and remote secrets, including – perhaps -- the location and real meaning of the fabled city of El Dorado, which has been protected with the lives of generations of Indigenous people.

 

An entire society of expatriates and eccentrics is brought to life in Antinori’s newest tale of international intrigue, The Condor’s Riddle, which populates the mythical port of Santa Clara by the Sea with a rogue’s gallery of heroes and antiheroes. Caught between the inexorable pincers of the Chinese and American embassies, along with the heavily armed drug cartels who demand answers about the dead man, the endearing cast of characters struggles to stay alive and safe in their marginal but customary way.

 

One of the indispensable band of friends is Bebéi, a naïve and simpleminded French archivist with a photographic memory. His guileless, camera-like observations become indispensable to solving an ever-deepening mystery and calming the streets. His investigative work is assisted by a Caribbean ex-president who lives among cats; a Chinese exotic dancer with a doll face; a Rastafarian workaholic; a Greek sea captain; even a remorseful German terrorist, who shares a vagabond life on the church stairs with a runaway Wall Street investor and a stoned Canadian hippie. Threading in and out of the narrative is a blind indigenous child who “sees” and senses much more than the sighted adults around her.

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M.Antinori

From Economist to Novelist

Marcelo Antinori is a Brazilian-born author currently living in Wittman, MD. He has traveled worldwide, overseeing social and economic development projects for International Organizations. His experience with different people and cultures allows him to create unique and exotic plots and characters. Antinori has books published in Portuguese and Spanish and is the author of The Bride of Paraty and Fiona Dares to Disturb.

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