The international bestseller that inspired the mustwatch drama on USA Network starring Alice Braga as Teresa Mendoza. From master of the intellectual thriller Arturo PerezReverte a remarkable tale spanning decades and continentsfrom the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco to the Strait of Gibraltar and Spainin a story encompassing sensuality and cruelty love and betrayal and life and death. Teresa Mendozas boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa Mexico call the king of the short runway because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business life can be short and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings it means hes dead and shed better run because theyre coming for her next. Then the call comes. In order to survive she will have to say goodbye to the old Teresa an innocent girl who once entrusted her life to a pinche narco smuggler. She will have to find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcosa woman she never before knew existed.