REVOLUCIÓN

This is the story of a man, three women, a revolution, and a treasure. The revolution was the one in Mexico in times of Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Villa. The treasure was 15,000 20-peso gold coins of what were known as maximilians, stolen from a bank in Ciudad Juarez on the 8th of May in 1911. The man was called Martin Garret Ortiz and he was a young Spanish mining engineer. Everything began for him this same day, when from his hotel he heard a shot fired off in the distance. He stepped out on the street to see what had happened, and from that moment his life changed forever

REVOLUCIÓN is much more than a novel about the dramatic events that shook the Mexican republic in the first third of the twentieth century. It is a tale of initiation and maturity through chaos, lucidity, and violence: the astonishing discovery of the hidden rules that determine loyalty, love, death, and life.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte was born in Cartagena, Spain, in 1951. He was a war correspondent for 21 years. With more than 20 million readers around the world, many of his books have been adapted for the cinema and television. He is a member of the Real Academia Española. He is widely known for his accurate and artfully told historical novels which become instant best- sellers. His books have been translated into over forty languages.