by Gisbert Haefs · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435008655
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«La carcajada del general» is the thriller novel by Gisbert Haefs, published by Edhasa in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
The plot takes place in Ciudad del Este, where the paths of the Cali cartel, Hezbollah, Mossad, the CIA, and the secret services of several South American countries cross. A group of young people is cornered by an old, cunning general, a ruthless man who dominates from the shadows an area marked by corruption and arms and drug trafficking. Action, suspense, and intrigue combine to portray an extreme social and political situation.
Novel by Gisbert Haefs, translated from German by Joan Parra, published in 1999 in the Narrativas contemporáneas collection.
Gisbert Haefs is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander, won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.
