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by: Rick Riordan
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553576443
ISBN: 0553576445
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: June 02, 1997
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: June 02, 1997
Sales Rank: 89150
Studio: Bantam
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Product Description:
Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder.
Meet Tres Navarre...tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, 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, turns up 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....
Amazon.com Review:
Rick Riordan has loaded his first mystery with lots of genre baggage: this story about a man coming home to San Antonio, Texas, to rescue his old girlfriend and solve the 12-year-old murder of his sheriff father is a virtual homage to James (The Last Good Kiss) Crumley. But Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his hometown that he very quickly marks the territory as his own. Tres Navarre has put behind him the teenage days when he and his friend Ralph Arguello would cruise through San Antonio, drinking a ferocious mixture of cheap tequila and Big Red cream soda. A University of California Ph.D. in English plus a fascination with t'ai chi ch'uan led Tres naturally enough to work as a private investigator in San Francisco. But one call from the love of his early life--the mysterious and captivating Lillian Cambridge, now trapped in dangerous work and love relationships--and Tres gladly trades his trendy Peet's coffee for the stronger brews of home.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - You Can Go Home Again--But It's Murder
Big Red Tequila introduces Tres Navarre, the unlicensed private investigator, t'ai chi master and English Ph.D. However, in this first book in the series, Tres seems a smaller, humbler figure as he returns home to face the ghosts of his past, including the unsolved murder of his father and the girlfriend he abandoned ten years earlier. He receives a less than Texas-friendly reception as his very presence stirs up memories of the shooting of his father the Sheriff, as well as his decision to cut ... Read More
Rating:  - First of a Great Series
I picked up on the Tres Navarre series by Rick Riordan in the middle, with Southtown, which was an incredible novel with indelible characters and a page-turning mystery plot. I had to check out this series from the beginning, and The Big Red Tequila, the first book in the series, didn't disappoint me.
Tres Navarre is returning to his hometown of San Antonio after years in California. Two things draw him back--the longing to find out if a perfect romance from early in his life can be ... Read More
Rating:  - Designed to be trendy, but boring
A toughguy who likes Tai Chi - how unpredictable. No, really. Oh, and he has a beautiful but neurotic ex, and then a stable ex, and there's supposed to be drama. And then he investigates some plot retired from old episodes of Dallas twenty years ago. This isn't badly written, and if you haven't seen through Robert Parker yet, maybe you'll still enjoy it, but to me it was predictably "unpredictable" and devoid of any real reading value.
Rating: - Must Read
This is Rick Riordan's first novel and it is wonderful. Tres Navarre is introduced (as this is a series) as a PI in San Antonio. This book will delight those who like mystery/thrillers or books that take place in Texas. Riordan is a masterful writer who does an extremely well job of describing his characters and surrounds. Read this book and the ones that follow and you will not be dissappointed.
Rating: - Start here
The Average Customer Review is four stars, and I agree. It seems everyone has a detective novel these days, and I would think it would be difficult to create a new character that stands out from the pack. Riordan has done this with Tres Navarre. The next couple Navarre novels get better, so start here.
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