Mario Conde, a pure Cuban sugar

The geography of thrillers has its landmarks and its cadastre: Barcelona seen by Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Pepe Carvalho, the working-class neighborhoods of New York traversed for almost half a century by the chief curator Isaac Sidel by Jerome Charyn, Los Angeles, land of he election of Harry Bosch, from the imagination of Michael Connelly, Venice haunted by Donna Leon and her favorite hero Guido Brunetti, Galway revisited by the Irishman Ken Bruen and his double Jack Taylor… To this list, we must add Leonardo Padura , which through Lieutenant Mario Conde, who appeared about thirty years ago, made his hometown, Havana, the second protagonist of his famous series.

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It was at the age of 35 that Padura, then a cultural journalist, embarked on the adventure of the detective novel, with the appearance of Mario Conde, a member of the National Revolutionary Police for ten years.

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