Translation Rights TQE / The Latin Connetion. From the Corsican mafia to the Argentine route of heroin

In 1947, a man who has been on the run in France for his collaboration with the Nazis gets off a boat in Buenos Aires. With a fake name and passport, Auguste Ricord’s past has been a turbulent one, linked with pimping, robbery and extortion. Together with Luis Bonsignour, who is wanted for three murders in Italy, he sets up an organization dedicated to prostitution and the white-slave trade. The so-called Monsieur André suggests that they help other fugitives from the French justice. The rumour grows in Paris’ underworld that there is compatriot that helps fugitives, like Lucien Sarti or François Chiappe, and provides lodgings, work and fake documents. The French set up a network for the trafficking of heroin to the United States. With the start of this trafficking, the myth was created that would go on to hit the big screens (now a classic ‘The French Connection’) in which the most credible of lies are tied up with the most unlikely of truths throughout the 60s and 70s: a bank raid at the Banco Nación, flights from Paraguay, political complicity, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and president Héctor Cámpora’s amnesty.

Praise for Osvaldo Aguirre:

“Aguirre is one of Argentina's most prolific writers today. A master of narrative, he creates an object, a text without cracks or fissures.” ABC, Spain