Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
?The phone rang and she knew they were going to kill her? is how this action-filled best-selling novel starts. This time, P?rez-Reverte's hero is a woman named Teresa Mendoza who is nicknamed ?The Queen of the South? and ?The Mexican? by the authorities of three continents. After her boyfriend, a pilot employed by drug lords, is murdered, she begins creating an empire with mafias from Spain, France, Italy and Russia in the male-dominated world of drug trafficking.