I'm glad I stuck around to finish it. I caught the gist of what was going on and was about to close it, but once I gave the movie a chance I quite enjoyed it.
Maybe you are reading about Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, a very important politician from my country.
It's a fictional book, this Alvaro Gomez is a violinist/ diamond smuggler. I just thought it was a funny coincidence that there's an actual person with the same name as a fictional character.