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The Adventures of Juan Planchard

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The bestselling wild, fast-paced ride through sex, drugs, revolution, and the morally gray hustle of a man who dares to game the system that destroyed his country—it's The Wolf of Wall Street meets Scarface.

"My name is Juan Planchard. I’m twenty-nine years old, and I have five million dollars in my account. I own a house in Caracas, another in Madrid, and a high-rise apartment in New York. I run a sportsbook at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. I share a private jet with a friend’s frontman. And I’m convinced—down to my bones—that every decision I made during the revolution was the right one. My descendants will thank me.”   

So begins The Adventures of Juan Planchard, the story of a middle-class nobody turned millionaire by weaponizing the very corruption that swallowed Venezuela. He dines with oligarchs, sleeps with models, and navigates a world where power is the only currency—and morality is a luxury no one can afford. 

But in the middle of the chaos, greed, and blood money, Juan falls hard for Scarlet, a sharp, seductive American beauty who just might be his way out—or his ultimate downfall.     

Critics Review

“The Adventures of Juan Planchard is a smart, well written, twisty, shocking, and darkly funny journey through the Venezuelan criminal underbelly; it’s also a startling portrait of a corrupt, authoritarian regime. It’s a wild and unforgettable thrill ride with a sharp social conscience and I urge you to buy it and read it as soon as you can. This is a fantastic book." 
 —Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of THE CARTEL and THE BORDER
“An electrifying, take-no-prisoners page-turner from one of our finest filmmakers, The Adventures of Juan Planchard is the great economic crime novel of our predatory economic age. What a bracing, honest, ferocious gift Jakubowicz has given us.”—Junot Diaz
“Reader, be warned: this book is on fire. You will enter a brilliantly rendered world of sex and violence that is both fantastical and achingly real. You won’t get far before you check the locks on your door.”—Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Human Scale
“Sexy, smart, violent, this book is spectacular. It doesn’t let up. A total killer.”—Elliot Ackerman, New York Times best-selling author of Sheepdogs and 2034
"Jonathan Jakubowicz has crafted a novel that will remind you why you fell in love with reading to begin with. The Adventures of Juan Planchard is an electrifying ride through the colliding gray zones of politics, revolution, relationships, greed and the criminal enterprises that connect them all.  A triumph of storytelling that explores the dark side of human nature and exposes its ultimate toll.  Unforgettable!"—Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cry Havoc
"Steamy sex scenes, ripe plot twists, and a deliciously over-the-top climax make this a top-notch contender for beach reading."—Publishers Weekly
Author Jonathan Jakubowicz
Narrator Timothy Andrés Pabon
Duration 7 hours and 1 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781668656488
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hachette Audio
Genre Adventure fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Political / legal thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability US

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