About The Adventures of Juan Planchard
The Adventures of Juan Planchard by Jonathan Jakubowicz is a fast-paced political thriller and crime novel set against the corruption, violence, and moral collapse of modern Venezuela.
Juan Planchard is a middle-class nobody who becomes rich by learning how to exploit the Chavista system that destroyed his country. He moves through a world of oligarchs, drugs, money, private jets, luxury apartments, and political power, convinced that every decision he made during the revolution was justified.
As Juan rises through Venezuela’s corrupt political order, he falls for Scarlet, a seductive American woman whose beauty, ambition, and danger mirror the violent world around him.
Blending political satire, noir, crime fiction, and cinematic storytelling, The Adventures of Juan Planchard explores power, corruption, desire, revolution, and the moral compromises people make when survival and ambition become inseparable.
Elliot Ackerman selected The Adventures of Juan Planchard as his July Book Club Pick, calling it “sexy, smart, violent” and “spectacular.”
