Silver Bullets
$29.30
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
12 December 2016
Summary
Silver Bullets: A Detective Mendieta Thriller
For Detective Edgar “Lefty” Mendieta, tormented by past heartbreak and dismayed by all-pervasive corruption, the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in Culiacan, Mexico’s capital of narco-crime.
There is no shortage of suspects in a city where it’s hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister and the lover of a drug lord’s daughter, a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782064909 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782064907 |
| Author: | Élmer Mendoza, Mark Fried |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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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
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 - Arturo Perez-Reverte
If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza’s dazzling Silver Bullets 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 - IndependentCasts a wide net over modern Mexican life and an array of well-drawn characters, some powerful, some weak, some depraved … Mendoza’s creation is nothing like standard pulp fiction - Times Literary SupplementAbout The Author
Élmer Mendoza
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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