El jefe

Conservatives and Liberals in the 1940s seize on the world war to settle their own fierce quarrel. Once Colombia sides against the Axis, German residents face losing their property and being exiled or interned, and the German brewery of Mr. Klauss, among the wealthiest firms in the country, could end up with the local oligarchy. Three people stand in the way: Alejandro Brennen, the German, a liquor smuggler whose immigrant father was killed in his childhood; Lupe Cascabel, an amateur bolero singer whose chichería the beer trade wants to destroy; and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the Chief, an unbribable politician and lawyer who turns detective. A political thriller that warns from its first page that even its history is an imitation.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

335 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Colombia, 1940s

First published

2018 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

ISBN

9789585458062 (original)