Death of a Tango King Hardcover - 1998
by Jerome Charyn
Yolanda's a convict, caught by the cops while her boyfriend was robbing a bank. Yolanda is also the cousin of Ruben Falcone, king of the Medellin cartel. Melvin Sparks whisks Yolanda out of jail and off to Medellin to find her cousin. So begins a journey into a crazy, comic heart of darkness, where nothing is ever as it seems.
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Yolanda's a convict, caught by the cops while her boyfriend was robbing a bank. Now all the Hell Sisters at Harrington Hills prison farm are in love with her. Their leader wants to "marry" her. Yolanda has to find a way out. She's been taking a philosophy course in jail from Melvin P. Sparks, a Cornell professor who talks to the female convicts once a week about ecology, in galoshes and a torn shirt. But it's only a disguise. He's actually a member of the Christian Commandos, a ragtag group of environmental rangers who aren't quite soldiers or spies. Yolanda happens to be the cousin of Ruben Falcone, king of the Medellin cartel. The rangers want to meet with Ruben, who's hiding in the jungles of Colombia, while a dozen agencies destroy the rain forest tracking him. Sparks helps Yolanda get out of jail, whisking her off to Medellin to find her long lost cousin.
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- Title Death of a Tango King
- Author Jerome Charyn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, 1
- Pages 246
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New York University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-01
- ISBN 9780814715758 / 0814715753
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.77 x 0.86 in (21.56 x 14.66 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97033913
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/15/1998, Page 1379
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/1998, Page 446
- Library Journal, 04/01/1998, Page 121
- Publishers Weekly, 04/27/1998, Page 45
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/1999, Page 59
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