The Seagull and the Spy

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>In this sequel to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>The Condor's Riddle</em><span style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)> (2024) Brazilian-American novelist Marcelo Antinori returns to the eccentric and charming world of Santa Clara by the Sea. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>The motley collection of local characters and expatriate refugees who give that Caribbean city its magic flavor must tackle a fresh mystery. Who was the man who lived in the abandoned apartment? </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>By accident Bebéi the seemingly naïve but deceptively shrewd archivist in the French embassy tumbles to his disappearance-which rather embarrassingly has gone undetected and unexplained for ten years. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>The only clues left behind are some notes hidden in twenty-six books on a shelf and what began as a simple curiosity slowly mushrooms into a shadowy mystery that pulls in deadly games of the Cold War.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 249 250 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Each note unveils a new clue and when Bebéi starts asking questions everyone gets involved; the city's fate is at stake and only those notes can save it from the corrupt mayor and his friends.</span></p><p><br></p>