The Brave Bulls

TOM LEA

Publication: Little, Brown and Company, 1949, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first novel. A suspenseful story of bullfighting in Mexico. Luis Bello is the greatest matador in Mexico, a man who is at the top of his profession, with everything that comes with that. One day fear changes everything. Luis suddenly feels a fear that previously he had not felt in the invincibility that comes with youth. His best friend and manager, Raul Fuentes, is killed in a car crash along with Luis's mistress, Linda de Calderon, after Linda and Raul had spent a romantic weekend together. This betrayal shakes Luis' beliefs about what has been real and what is real now. Now Luis must deal with these new found feelings while at the same time facing the most feared bulls in all of Mexico ... the brave bulls."