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What is the connection between bitcoin and the collapse of the Bronze Age in 1177 BC? Between the Temple of Moriah in ancient Jerusalem and the central banks of today? Between the Knights of Templar and the end of civilization? Follow ex-detective Dan Landes as he tries to unravel the riddle of thirty-three centuries in the Treasure of the Gran Ventura. Dan Landes lives the perfect expat life in Central America. But the innocent sale of some...

Alma-Gator Press is proud to present a brand new collection of poems by expatriate American poet Robert Rahula. These are "Portilla" poems. Portilla literally means porthole in Spanish, the small window in a ship from which a sailor can stare from his tiny confined cabin out to the vastness of the sea. Portilla is a style of poetry that exploded in popularity in the late seventies in Madrid, Spain, during La Movida Madrileña - that movement of...

What really happened in the Garden of Eden? Who was behind the serpent and the apple? What was God thinking? At last it can be told! The unexpurgated story of what really happens in Heaven. Why God created Time. The truth about His friendship with Satan. Those rumors of a drinking problem. The meaning of life. Whether sin really exists. The political power of the three angels' unions. Read all about it! These are the stories that the cherubim ...

What if, after you die, your life just continues on, in exactly the same manner as when you were alive? In this riveting and often humorous novel by Robert Rahula, an American expat wakes up dead in Toledo, Spain, and discovers that nothing has changed, except that he is dead. He continues to interact with all his old friends, and they with him. Only he alone knows that he's dead. In his journey through this afterlife, he ponders the meaning o...

Portilla literally means porthole in Spanish, the small window in a ship from which a sailor can stare from his tiny confined cabin out to the vastness of the sea. Portilla is a style of poetry that exploded in popularity in the late seventies in Madrid, Spain, during La Movida Madrileña - that movement of free expression that erupted after the death of Franco, when young men and women were finally free to express their anger at the dictatorsh...

American expat Ricardo lives alone in a quiet town in Panama and dreams of one last romantic fling. But his nightly dreams are haunted by a mysterious brujo, an ancient sorcerer who has not been seen in 15 years. As the dreams increase in sexual intensity, Ricardo begins to question his sanity. Then one day, the brujo appears in person. From Robert Rahula, the acclaimed writer of Panamaniac, comes a surreal story of love, sex and sorcery. Set ...

Everyone thinks the old man of Villa Rosario is crazy, but Ricardo visits him every day, bringing him wine so he can listen to the old man's theories of how gravity bends time and how love bends everything. The old man gets his theories from a magical talking Giant Fly that lives in his eye. The old man might be crazy, but his theories start making sense to Ricardo. And Ricardo needs something to make sense to him now. He moved to Panama to es...

What if you knew you were going to die and only had one afternoon to give an accounting of your life? That is the task that has been presented to Ricardo, an old expat living in a tiny dusty town in Panama, a town where he has sought refuge from the world for the past fifteen years. When it dawns on Ricardo that death is near, he feels an ancient urge to provide a reckoning of his life, his past loves, his polyamorous excesses, his philosophy,...

In Panamaniac, Ricardo decides to quit his job at a prestigious New York law firm and move to Panama, where he hopes to discover the perfect combination of sex (straight/gay/bi/trans) and time - time to pursue his secret career as a short story writer. But the road to paradise becomes an increasingly strange pilgrimage with each person that Ricardo meets: Kit, the wounded woman-child, and Phillipe, her transsexual guardian angel, Wilson, the 3...

When Ricardo moves into a small apartment complex in Panama - an apartment building full of expats and retirees - he thinks he's found the perfect tropical hideaway from all he left behind in the States… until Alison points out how strange some of the residents are. While Ricardo and Alison push their sexual boundaries inside Ricardo's apartment, a furious rage is seething next door. Ricardo's carefully arranged sanctuary is about to be cracke...

Can sexual obsession ever lead to love? Messieurs tells the interrelated story of three men, each obsessed with sex in their own way. Monsieur, divorced and solitary, drifts through the cities of France, seeking and seducing women but never connecting with them. He repeatedly returns to the gay bathhouses for sanctuary...until he meets Enid. Back in the USA, Paul is writing a book on the S&M, culture. But the characters in his book are stronge...

A chance encounter in a Belgian bar puts a young man at the same table with an older man. It turns out that the older man personally knows a famous writer that the younger man admires. At the young man's prodding, the older man shares details about the young man's hero. The young man is intrigued and wants to hear more, and so he agrees to meet the next night for dinner. But the next night, the story takes an erotic and sinister tone, revealin...

When Death - that uninvited and unwelcomed guest - arrives, all plans cease, everyone has to stop and make adjustments, and everyone has to deal with it." Magali - a young prostitute of Villa Rosario, Panama - has died. Her ex-lovers, including friends Ricardo and Dan Landes, attend her funeral, each harboring different memories of her. In fact, everyone harbors different memories of her, because no one really knew who she was. But her ghost c...

Over the past three decades, Robert Rahula has published more than 30 books of prose and poetry in Spain and in the United States. While he is just beginning to be discovered in the United States, he is revered in Spain as the founder of the "portilla" style of popular Spanish poetry: non-metered introspective verse that deals with love, loss, sexuality, separateness, and growing older. Robert was born in Spain to an American father and Spanis...

Dan Landes is "ex" everything: expatriate, ex-detective, and exhausted. He has returned to Panama after a year of recuperation in the United States, ready to resume a quiet life gathering the mind-altering ayahuasca plant deep in the mountains. But evil is coming to Panama - or rather, through Panama - as a sinister team of murderers seeks to smuggle the world's most lethal biological weapon into the United States through Central America. The ...

All the Yage in Reno is the second novel in what the Spanish critic Phillipe Cordova called the "Essential Dan Landes novels" - those four magical realism detective stories that Robert Rahula wrote during his years living in Panama (Bathhouse Stories, All the Yage in Reno, Exigent Circumstances, and Uninvited Guest) - but the fact is, the character of Dan Landes appears much earlier in Robert Rahula's novels. He first appears as a minor charac...

This collection consists of expatriate poems selected from five of Robert Rahula's best known books of poetry written during his years living in Europe, Mexico, and Central America. The word expatriate derives from the French word expatrier (and originally from the Latin expatriatus) meaning to banish, and evokes a feeling of being forced out of one's homeland… assuming one ever felt at home to start with. These are the poems of the wanderer, ...

In an unnamed and timeless Latin American country, the lives of six men and three police officers intertwine after a brutal murder in a gay bathhouse. Dan Landes, an expatriate retired Los Angeles cop, is recruited to hunt for a serial killer who preys on lonely men in the dark steam rooms. When it looks like the killer might get away with another murder, Dan is forced to use his friend Ricardo as bait. Explicit content. 18 and older please.Fr...

Despite the title, this is a book definitely NOT for children. Here are 21 adult short stories from one of Spain's most accomplished and brilliant writers. Robert Rahula delivers a dazzling collection of contemporary "portilla" short stories - that writing style that interweaves graphic sexual detail, existential philosophy, wry political commentary, and intricate dreamlike plots. A large talking bear waxes philosophical on the nature of evil ...

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