Summary
When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar “Lefty” Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857052612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857052616 |
| Author: | Mark Fried, Élmer Mendoza |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 137mm x 22mm |
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One of the biggest names in Mexican literature … A true novelist … No one has captured the exciting and passionate nature of the Mexican vernacular like him
The literary representative of modern-day Mexico in its narco-incarnation … The most important thing that’s happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years - Sunday TelegraphIf you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza … could be the answer - Sunday TimesPresents Mexico in a darkly surrealist light: corrupt politicos, a plague of narco-crime and only battered detective Edgar “Lefty” Mendieta on the side of the angels - IndependentAbout The Author
Mark Fried
Elmer Mendoza was born in Culiacan, Mexico in 1949. He is a professor and author, widely regarded as the founder of ‘narco-lit’, which explores drug trafficking and corruption in Latin America. He won the Jose Fuentes Mares National Literary Prize for Janis Joplin’s Lover, and the Tusquets Prize for Silver Bullets.
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