Robert Ryan

EL TOREO DE CAPA es una recopilación fiel de todo tipo de suertes presentes en las tauromaquias clásicas y de las que han ido apareciendo tras la revolución belmontina –aquellas cinco verónicas sin e

A stunning Dr Watson thriller perfect for all fans of Sherlock. The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is held in a notorious POW camp deep in enemy Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners. With the Allied blockade, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel. Watson, though, isn''t so sure. Something isn''t quite what it seems and a creeping feeling of unease tells Watson there is more to this than meets the eye. And when an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut and he is sent to solitary confinement, he knows he has touched a nerve. If Watson is to reveal the heinous crimes that have occurred at the camp, he must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from his old friend, Sherlock Holmes...

A sweeping epic historical novel about Lawrence of Arabia, one of the most compelling characters in British history, from bestselling author Robert Ryan. 1915: While the war in Europe escalates, a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence is in Cairo, awaiting his chance for action. His superiors, however, have consigned him to the Map Room at GCHQ. But there''s more to Lieutenant Lawrence than meets the eye. A man of immense energy, he runs a network of agents across the Levant. Lawrence is convinced that an Arab revolt is the only way to remove the Ottoman presence, and leave a free self-governed Arabia. Soon, alarming reports reach him of trouble in Persia, orchestrated by infamous German agent Wilhelm Wassmuss. Intent on taking down Wassmuss and, at the same time, unlocking the secret of his success, Lawrence assembles a small group and travels to Persia...

In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever. When war is declared, Ulrike flees Germany for the safety of England but is instead cruelly imprisoned as an enemy alien. Her only hope of rescue is Cameron, who, despite his better judgement, is falling in love with her. And then Erich is captured by the British and incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp in England. He faces interrogation by Cameron Ross, the one man who stands between him and Ulrike, the woman who means more to Erich than life itself.

Sorprende esta autobiografía del que se puede considerar el último torero estadounidense, Robert Ryan; y lo hace por innumerables motivos: el emocionante carácter de lo insólito del caso, el enfoque intimo de una experiencia rica y unica, un sentir exquisito sobre la tauromaquia, su escritura excepcional Desde sus primeras paginas un bellisimo relato sobre el nacimiento de la sorprendente vocacion por el toreo de un chico californiano sin la mas minima cercania al mundo taurino Ryan da cuenta de una sensibilidad especial para el arte, la recreacion literaria y la emocion. Una vez dentro del mundo taurino, el recorrido por su periplo como matador esta lleno de datos, riqueza y matices; ya en Mexico, con su padre taurino, el maestro Pepe Ortiz, o en su salto a España, de manos de los hermanos Lozano. Ademas del sabroso dato para la historia, Ryan, poeta, grabador, pintor y siempre torero, deja aqui lo mas granado de su memoria, una reflexion unica sobre la intimidad y profundidades del toreo y, seguramente, sus mejores paginas como escritor. ¿Como un gringo nacido en Los Angeles puede llegar a comprender, a sentir, a vivir y desarrollar de una manera tan pura la Tauromaquia?En un tiempo resultadista, de busqueda de seguidores y likes por la via rapida, sin ningun pudor en algunos casos, darse una vuelta por la vida de este artista es un valioso balsamo espiritualNo les suena el nombre, ¿verdad? Pues descubranlo, es Robert Ryan, un torero americano de Estados Unidos. Abran la puerta de esta historia escrita en exquisita prosa poetica.~ JOSE TOMAS, del prologo a este libro