Tango of the old guard. Perev-Reverte A.

Tango and chess, international espionage, fraud and theft, dark alleys, dark sides of the soul and love - doomed for life. Two people from different worlds - in the past of a soldier, and now the gigolo, the spy involuntarily and a clever thief without a penny in the pocket of Max Costa and the impenetrable socialite Mercedes Insure, which is familiar to luxury - play a worthy Hitchcock with a tense drama of fatal love and betrayal. Three short meetings fell into these two: in the 1920s, in the exquisite interiors of the transatlantic liner and in the slums of Buenos Aires; In the 1930s in Nice, when the shadow of everything that was coming over Europe already loomed; And in Sorrento, during the furious battle of the Chilean and Soviet grandmasters for the chess crown, in the 1960s, when life has already passed and remains only without envy to look at young, clear-eyed and persistent, supporting them if possible. This is a story about the ardor of tango and cold calculation of chess - but not only. This is a story about great love - but it is not the whole thing.

Arturo Perezherte is a former military journalist, a famous author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels translated into forty languages, creator of the cycle about captain Diego Alatrist, the owner of the prestigious literary awards. His “Tango of the Old Guard” is a black and white movie about the true passion of the tango, which sounds in you until the end of your days, about nostalgia for the past times, when life was full of adventure, unpredictable and with everything that sailed to you, you parted It’s easy, because he was young and was not afraid of anything, and about old age, which is full of regrets, but is not at all able to change either a burned fraudster or a real knight.