Sound Of Things Falling

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No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret or rather several secrets. Antonios fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota billiard hall & grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it they go to a library. The first time he glances up from his seat in the next booth Antonio sees tears running down Laverdes cheeks; the next the ex-pilot has gone. Shortly afterwards Ricardo is shot dead on a street corner in Bogota by a guy on the back of a motorbike & Antonio is caught in the hail of bullets. Lucky to survive & more out of love with life than ever he starts asking questions until the questions become an obsession that leads him to Laverdes daughter. His troubled investigation leads all the way back to the early 1960s marijuana smuggling & a time before the cocaine trade trapped a whole generation of Colombians in a living nightmare of fear & random death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the leading novelists of his generation & The Sound of Things Falling that tackles what became of Colombia in the time of Pablo Escobar is his best book to date.