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Hotel Cartagena

Hotel Cartagena
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Cartagena
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages...

Invisible Fortune: A tale of cryptocurrency

Invisible Fortune: A tale of cryptocurrency
  • Author(s): J Lee Porter, Ed Teja
  • Location(s): Cartagena
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Betrayal for a worthy cause can taste mighty sweet. Henry Miller once said, “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” When a programmer on an extended vacation in Cartagena, Colombia, lets a...

Sparrow

Sparrow
  • Author(s): James Hynes
  • Location(s): Cartagena
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 400s

Meet Jacob – aka Sparrow – a boy slave in a brothel in the Spanish city of New Carthage in the last years of pagan Rome. Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy...

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