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"In ten days, Roberto. You must leave the country. Or else you will die."
3.5 stars The book opens up with Roberto waking up in the middle of the night to receive a death threat on the phone, and the narrative counts down each day before t ...more
This book was one I couldn't put down from the beginning of reading until the end. It is on a subject I have tried to bring to the attention of people and organizations for about 4 decades concerning in particular the Indigenous peoples in the rainforests of South America and the poor from Mexico on ...more
An investigative reporter in South America receives a threat: leave the country in ten days, or die. It's a heck of a starting point, and the chapters are laid out as "X Days Until the Day Roberto Has Before He Dies". The first half of the novel follows the protagonist around the "civilized" journal ...more
Roberto to the Dark Tower Came needs ALL the trigger warnings. Gore, death, torture, sexual assault, cruelty to animals, death of animals, language, whatever you can think of. If that is enough for you to not read it, then you probably don’t need to re ...more
Roberto to the Dark Tower Came works as a thriller, for sure, but also a wider conversation piece about very real dangers and perils in the world today. This is a novel with a rounded-out character who we grow to know and care about, and a novel where atmosphere is important. Rober to the Dark Tower ...more
—The review below was authored by Paperback Paris Staff Writer, Melissa Ratcliff. Read more.
While political affairs are often a touchy subject, Tom Epperson makes a case for the corrupt political tensions and scandals plaguing journalists and the indigenous peoples of South America in Roberto to ...more
‘There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture! In a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all.’ (Robert Browning)
At 6am one morning Roberto, an investigative journalist in an unnamed South American country, receives a phone call: ‘In t ...more
A very disturbing, page-turner political thriller novel.
The theme presented in this story represents the many kinds of injustice and violence that happened or are still happening in parts of the worlds and how brave persons are still fighting to disclose the truth.
I loved this book. I devoured it in one big gulp. It was suspenseful. It was thoughtful. It was timely. But most of all I was surprised by how soulful it was for a thriller. It's set in a Latin American country full of political turmoil and though written by an Arkansas author, its sense of place is ...more
This is the darkest and most legitimately frightening book I have read this year. Thanks Mr Epperson for ensuring that I will never visit South America for any reason, although I had really wanted to prior.
This book is insanely well written, with characters you root for desperately. The description ...more