Mexico City's Cult Noir Classic "The best fing novel ever written about Mexico City" Francisco GoldmanFiliberto Garc铆a is in over his head. An aging ex-hitman with a filthy mouth,he has three days to stop a rumored Mongolian plot to assassinate the President of the United States on his visit to Mexico.Forced to work with agents from the FBI and the KGB,Garc铆a must cut through international intrigue. But with bodies piling up and the investigation getting murkier,he starts to suspect shady dealings closer to home,and to wonder why the hell he was hired in the first place.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782275312Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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Riveting cult classicColorful anecdotes and plot twists aboundThe best fucking novel ever written about Mexico CityIn the tradition of the classic detective novel,a fun and action-filled readThis Mexico City noir is a lot of fun and packs an unexpected wallop... equal parts Richard Stark and Philip Atlee with echoes of Chester Himes and Paco Ignacio Taibo III couldn't put it down... enthralling... entirely compellingA brilliant slice of completely non-PC fun...with its snappy pace,staccato dialogue and description,and a rather likeable,although fundamentally dislikeable central character in the shape of the curmudgeonly and ageing Garcia,a man with an equal mix of attitude and angst. RecommendedA quintessential espionage thriller... a novel you will race throughAs if the lead character of a madcap Hunter S. Thompson novel has stumbled into a Graham Greene thriller... be sure to pick up this energetic underdog thriller...The strange combination of the seedy and the elegant in the prose is idiomatically rendered here,making it quite unlike most crime novels that the reader is likely to have encountered. Well worth the wait for its English translationSheer entertainment... cleverly worked out plot...
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