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The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (Hardcover, 2015)

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A first UK edition hardback copy of The Discreet Hero by Nobel Prize winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Faber & Faber in 2015. The book is in very good, as new condition. There is little to no shelf wear and no creases or marks to the dust jacket. The boards, spine and binding are in pristine shape and the pages are very clean with no annotations or inscriptions. The book appears to be unread.

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Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil