Synopses & Reviews
Set in the early seventies, Bitter Drink takes place in the desert near Puerto Vallarta, during the filming of John Huston's The Night of the Iguana, featuring a star-studded cast of Hollywood celebrities: Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon, Deborah Kerr, and Richard Burton, the love interest of Elizabeth Taylor. The town is swarming with paparazzi and fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous couple, making the atmosphere tense, almost unbearable. In what he considers to be an act of humor, Huston decides to give each one of his actors a special present: a golden gun with silver bullets. But the joke turns sour when one of the characters is found dead... Sunny Pascal, a half-American and half-Mexican beatnik detective, is in charge of solving the crime by unraveling a web of murders, blackmail, stolen jewels, and the Mexican mafia.
Synopsis
Beatnik detective Sunny Pascal is an expert at two things: cocktails and finding trouble. And when the filming of John Huston's The Night of the Iguana hits a few snags with its sexed-up, star-studded cast in a Puerto Vallarta paradise, producer Ray Stark brings Sunny in to chill out the set. But matters get tipsy when someone's found deader than dead, shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members.
Now Sunny's got to keep his Hollywood stars out of jail long enough for him to solve the case. But the trouble doesn't stop with murder. The Mexican mafia and local newspapers wage a tension war against the hedonistic Americans, and if John Huston has anything to say about it, Sunny's got to be the one to keep the show on the road. Only Sunny will be doing it his way: with a martini in one hand and a Colt in the other.
Prolific Mexican comic book writer and Turn of the Screw Award-winner F. G. Haghenbeck gives us the spins with Bitter Drink, a tense tale of crime, passion, and cocktails.