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El Gato - A Latin American Noir Novel - cover

El Gato - A Latin American Noir Novel

Martín Fernández

Casa editrice: Publishdrive

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El Gato is a gritty, psychological noir novel carved from the cold asphalt of the city and the bruises of a forgotten childhood.
 
Luis Gómez was just a boy when a car crash took everything. Orphaned and dumped in the brutal corridors of San Miguel, a boarding school for the unwanted, he learns early that kindness is a weakness. He watches. He adapts. He survives. Soon, he's no longer Luis. He's El Gato — a shadow that lands on his feet and never shows his claws unless necessary.
 
From stealing candy to smuggling drugs. From schoolyard fistfights to silent executions. Luis climbs through the ranks of organized crime with quiet precision, driven not by rage, but by the bone-deep need to never feel powerless again.
 
But when he spares the life of a boy — Ángel, a younger version of the child he once was — and reencounters Clara, a woman who sees through the smoke and silence, El Gato faces something worse than vengeance: purpose. And with purpose comes vulnerability.
 
What follows is a war without heroes. Hunted by the cartel he once served, betrayed by those he trained, and haunted by a past he thought buried, Luis must decide whether to remain the legend the streets fear… or become something more dangerous: a man who chooses not to kill.
 
El Gato is a Latin American noir about trauma, loyalty, and the cost of survival. Bleak, poetic, and ruthless, it tells the story of a killer shaped by violence, now trying to unlearn what kept him alive.
 
This is not a redemption arc.This is a reckoning.
 
Can someone who learned to kill… ever truly learn to live?
Disponibile da: 19/06/2025.
Lunghezza di stampa: 72 pagine.

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