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Sign up todayThe Vagabond Virgins
The Tom Hickey’s California Series: Book #5
Narrator
Ray Porter
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Length
7 hours 6 minutes
Language
English
In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego PI Alvaro Hickey is checking the stories that Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin, one who has definite political preferences. Though Alvaro doubts that this visitor is divine, he’s firmly on her side. Then, Lourdes Shuler asks him to unite her with her sister, Lupe, whom she claims is the campesinos’ Virgin. Alvaro is not the kind to turn down an appeal for help, especially from such a beauty, even though she may be hiding something. But he doesn’t know about the infamous comandante of the Mexican federal police who has come from the Capital to rid the land of this vagabond Virgin.
Ken Kuhlken earned degrees in literature and writing and has been a columnist for the San Diego Reader. His stories have appeared in Esquire and Best American Short Stories, and he won the St. Martin’s Press / PWA Best First PI Novel Contest.
Ray Porter is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator and fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Almost Famous, ER, and Frasier.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Ray Porter
ISBN:
9781481566490
Length:
7 hours 6 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
February 1, 2008
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
“The Vagabond Virgins delivers a story in the tradition of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and B. Traven’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Kuhlken knows the brutal reality of border Mexico, and makes you believe that amidst the violence and corruption, a miraculous woman can still make a difference.”
“Engaging…Fans of the Hickey clan will undoubtedly enjoy this south-of-the-border installment.”
“Features the same original plots and memorable characters that make Kuhlken’s series so outstanding.”
“A fast-moving adventure that effectively combines mainstream historical fiction with the conventions of the hard-boiled detective novel. Kuhlken has another winner.”
“The family Hickey—Alvaro, brother Clifford and Pop—is always entertaining.”
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