by Thomas Cook · Plata · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493696023
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«El señor del sur» is the suspense novel by Thomas H. Cook, published by Plata in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Jack Branch, a teacher in Lakeland, runs a course on evil and discovers that his student Eddie Miller is the son of the killer of a young woman from the town. To free him from the stigma, he asks him to investigate the figure of his father; the work brings to light secrets the community wants to hide and splashes Branch's own family.
The novel was originally published in English as Master of the Delta, is set in 1954 in the Mississippi Delta and belongs to the Plata negra collection.
For readers of crime fiction and thrillers set in the southern United States.
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. Following the success of this excursion, Cook, by now settled with his family in Leicester, began to organise tours further afield in the British Isles and, eventually, to the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1872, he went into business with his son as Thomas Cook & Son, with a head office in London. Following his retirement in 1878, he returned to Leicester and took an interest in the Baptist church and charitable work until his death. Cook is credited with having, through his all-inclusive tours, made travel and tourism accessible to a wider public.
