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The Acid Test
Élmer Mendoza
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Description for The Acid Test
Paperback. Egdar "Lefty" Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering "Narco-lit" noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fiction Translator(s): Fried, Mark. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308.
When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar Lefty Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra, a well-known stripper, had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by the night he spent in her company. As Mexico's drug war ramps up, Lefty's pursuit of a gallery of jealous and powerful suspects, all with a murderous glint in their eye, leads him to Samantha Valdes, the godfather's daughter, who is battling to retain her father's empire. And as the mystery deepens, the bodycount rises.
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857052612
SKU
V9780857052612
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Ref
99-1
About 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.
Reviews for The Acid Test
A vivid glimpse into an ultraviolent world of macho posturing, unorthodox policing and ruthless criminality.
Laura Wilson
Guardian.
Essential reading.
Jake Kerridge
Sunday Express.
Mendoza conveys a clear sense of life in Culiacan through the violence of the competing cartels and a simmering expectation and acceptance of corruption
Publishers Weekly
Presents 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
Barry Forshaw
Independent
If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza . . . could be the answer
John Dugdale
Sunday Times
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
Gaby Wood
Sunday Telegraph
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
Laura Wilson
Guardian.
Essential reading.
Jake Kerridge
Sunday Express.
Mendoza conveys a clear sense of life in Culiacan through the violence of the competing cartels and a simmering expectation and acceptance of corruption
Publishers Weekly
Presents 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
Barry Forshaw
Independent
If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza . . . could be the answer
John Dugdale
Sunday Times
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
Gaby Wood
Sunday Telegraph
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