{"product_id":"2940169207798","title":"Queen of the South","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkable tale, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Queen of the South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. A sweeping story set to the irresistible beat of the drug smugglers' ballads, it encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, as its heroine's story unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call \"the king of the short runway,\" because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the call comes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to survive, she will have to say goodbye to the old Teresa, an innocent girl who once entrusted her life to a pinche narco smuggler. She will have to find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcos-a woman she never before knew existed. Indeed, the woman who emerges will surprise even those who know her legend, that of the Queen of the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150182596848,"sku":"2940169207798","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169207798_p0.jpg?v=1763767247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169207798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}