Big Red Tequila (Tres Navarre)

Jackson "Tres" Navarre returns to his hometown of San Antonio for the first time in ten years, still haunted by his father's murder. As he investigates his former girlfriend's disappearance and the unsolved crime, he is drawn into a dangerous case involving construction interests, corrupt police, and local politics in this Texas private-eye novel.

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In Texas, even murder is bigger.

The first Tres Navarre novel by Rick Riordan follows an unlicensed private investigator and Tai Chi practitioner as he confronts a case linking past and present crimes in San Antonio, where memories of his father's death still linger. It is a hard-boiled mystery shaped by local atmosphere and humor.

Review Summaries

The novel has been praised for its sharply voiced dialogue and its detailed sense of South Texas. Although it uses familiar crime-fiction elements, Tres's first-person narration was received as a distinctive feature of this debut.

Book Information

Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1997-06-02
Pages: 400 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 10.64 x 2.16 x 17.04 cm
ISBN-13: 9780553576443
ISBN-10: 0553576445
Price: 2334 JPY
Category: 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/British Detectives

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Everything in Texas is bigger . . . even murder. Meet Tres Navarre—tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, and unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson “Tres” Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father’s murder behind him. Now he’s back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians’ games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It’s obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet’s nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, is missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father’s murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo. “Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own.”— Chicago Tribune Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

Rick Riordan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the Heroes of Olympus series for children and the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. For fifteen years, Riordan taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary’s Hall honored him with the school’s first Master Teacher Award. His adult fiction has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre—the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus. His first Percy Jackson book, The Lightning Thief , was a New York Times Notable Book for 2005. The Sea of Monsters was a Child Magazine Best Book for Children for 2006 and a national bestseller. The third title, The Titan’s Curse , made the series a #1 New York Times bestseller, and the fourth title, The Battle of the Labyrinth , had a first printing of one million copies. The series concluded with The Last Olympian , which was also a major national bestseller. Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.

Reviews

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Rick Riordan Has Been Writing Great Books for Years

I love a good mystery and this is a great one. Years before being kept up by reading about Percy Jackson’s adventures I could have been reading Big Red Tequila. This mystery masterpiece features Tre Navarre, an eccentric, eclectic character determined to solve the 10 year old murder of his father. The best mysteries involve the reader reader with vivid characters or provide a fascinating puzzle. This book does both.
Five Stars

OK
P.I. Tres Navarre introduced to readers

This is author Rick Riordan's first novel. Riordan is a native of San Antonio and this is a Texas tale involving aspiring P.I. Tres Navarre, who returns home to San Antonio after 10 years in San Francisco. Navarre left town after his father, a sheriff, was murdered. When Navarre returns, he hooks up with his old high school sweetheart Lillian, and wants to investigate the death of his father. Lillian soon disappears and Navarre starts digging into her disappearance, while also trying to make sense of his father's murder. Riordan has created some interesting characters in this debut novel. Navarre has a Ph.D. in medieval literature, practices Tai Chi, knows his way around Texas and has an enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson. Navarre's brother, Garrett, is a die-hard hippie, marijuana smoker, a Jimmy Buffett fan who is confided to a wheelchair. He lost both legs years ago trying to hop a train. Riordan also incorporates an up-close look at San Antonio along with the people who live there. I get the feeling Riordan was trying too hard in his first novel, which did win multiple awards. There are too many characters, too much happening and the pace lags in places. I think the novel would have been better if it was shortened by 50 or so pages. The story and the characters, however, are interesting. According to some critics, Riordan's Tres Navarre series improves after his debut novel. This book and the rest of the Tres Navarre series are worthy of a reader's time.
Big red tequila

Big red tequila by Rick riodan good story and a great read cannot wait to read another great story 👍