Acrobat

Gonzalo Lira

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Accused of stealing sixty million dollars and selling U.S. secrets, Acrobat must go underground. Pursued from the secret corridors of the CIA to the gritty streets of New York by their former allies and friends, they soon realize there is a traitor among them. But who would betray the trust of the group?

Caught in a web of lies and deceit, the group must decide: stay and fight or run and escape? Stylish, edgy and completely original-from the explosive opening scene to the final astonishing moments-this is masterful storytelling at breakneck speeds.

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"As exciting as any big-screen adventure, as nerve-racking as any real-life danger.
An absolute stunner."--Booklist (starred review)

"Hip and lethal [with] a dynamite opening scene...lively and fun to read."--Washington Post

"From its blistering blastoff in Manhattan to a sinister splashdown in the political swampland of Washington, D.C., this isn't a novel-it's a rocket ride. Gonzalo Lira writes with a style that's furious and fulfilling, and Acrobat is the kind of book that's all about taking the reader to the next level. You won't find anything more intense or involving this side of a free-fire zone."--Douglas E. Winter, author of Run

"A triumph of style over substance. Lira has a thrilling prose style...there is no way, once we have started reading the book, to put it down again until Lira is prepared to give us a moment's rest. Then it's back on the locomotive, take a deep breath and hold on."--Booklist (starred review)

"It's not George Smiley's kind of spycraft, but it's complex enough and no less deadly. Swaggering body language, hip and swingy language-color them infinitely gaudier than the usual Smiley-gray: in fact, think of the Mod Squad folded into the CIA...It's their differences, however, that make them so interesting and their fates so poignant. Lira is an edgy, energetic storyteller, and his spin on a well-worn genre has it frisking about almost as if newly minted."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"The conventional CIA thriller is given a hip-hop twist. . .a perfectly twisted ending the most jaded reader won't see coming."--Publishers Weekly

"Just when it seemed that every plot, character, and twist had been mined out of the thriller genre, along comes Gonzalo Lira's Acrobat, a stunning freight train of a novel bursting with energy, action, and character you can actually care about. Once you've read this book, you'll have a new definition of 'page-turner'."--Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex

"Action-packed [with] characters readers can care about."--Library Journal

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Hugh  rated it  
Aug 11, 2011
4 Reasons To Read It:

It is fast-paced. This is a variant on the exciting spy sub-genre I would call the "long chase". This kind of thing goes on in books like The Thirty-Nine Steps, or Rogue Male, and of course the film North By Northwest fits in nicely. Something has happen ...more
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Gonzalo Lira

Gonzalo Lira graduated in 1995 from Dartmouth College. He is the author of Counterparts, and the Spanish-language novel Tomáh Errázurih. He lives overseas.

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Acrobat
Gonzalo Lira

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Paperbacks
May 2003
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780312989712
ISBN10: 0312989717
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 432 pages
$6.99

Hardcover

Hardcover
St. Martin's Press
May 2002
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312286941
ISBN10: 0312286945
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 320 pages
$24.95

e-Book Agency

e-Book Agency
St. Martin's Press
May 2003
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429977012
ISBN10: 1429977019
320 pages
$6.99
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