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Una historia casi ficticia de amor y espionaje en tiempos de Hugo Chvez.En una Venezuela convulsionada por la revolucin de Hugo Chvez, Moiss Nam teje una novela de espionaje y amor que nace de dos dcadas de minucioso trabajo de documentacin.A travs de las historias de Eva, espa de la CIA, y Mauricio, agente del servicio de inteligencia cubano, el lector se sumerge en una adictiva trama de thriller que es, al mismo tiempo, la crnica de una realidad que, a veces, supera a la ficcin."Cmo se fabrica hoy una dictadura en Hispanoamrica Un relato picante y veraz en la lnea de Tirano Banderas, El Otoo del Patriarca o Yo, el Supremo, pero con ms toques de humor y la CIA o Fidel Castro como estrellas invitadas". -Fernando Savater "Una novela que muestra la cara ms cruda del populismo, y que llega ms all de donde un ensayo poltico podra llegar".
About the Author
Moisés Naím has been called "one of the world's leading thinkers" (Prospect Magazine) and has been ranked among the top 100 global thought leaders by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Switzerland. He is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally syndicated columnist and a best-selling author of 14 books, including "The End of Power" and "Illicit". In 2013, "The End of Power" was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year. Naím recently published his first novel "Two Spies in Caracas" . In 2011, he received the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Journalism award and, in 2018, won an Emmy award for his television program "Efecto Naim". He was also the editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. Under his leadership, the magazine won the National Magazine award for General Excellence three times and became one of the world's most influential publications in international affairs. Naím has served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry, director of Venezuela's Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He holds MSc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been professor and dean of IESA, Venezuela's main business school. He currently lives with his family in Washington, DC.
