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Needle in a Haystack (An Inspector Lascano Mystery)
Ernesto Mallo
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Description for Needle in a Haystack (An Inspector Lascano Mystery)
Paperback. Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Translator(s): Soutar, Jethro. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. 227 pages. Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FF. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight: 188. Translator(s): Soutar, Jethro.
Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly the work of the junta's death squads, and so should not be investigated by the police, but the other one seems different. Lascano follows the trail, leading the reader on a tour of a Buenos Aires poisoned to the core by the military regime. Lascano must navigate gingerly among characters symbolic of an Argentina that has ... Read more
Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly the work of the junta's death squads, and so should not be investigated by the police, but the other one seems different. Lascano follows the trail, leading the reader on a tour of a Buenos Aires poisoned to the core by the military regime. Lascano must navigate gingerly among characters symbolic of an Argentina that has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904738565
SKU
V9781904738565
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About Ernesto Mallo
Born in 1948, Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is a former militant, pursued by the dictatorship as a member of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, which was later absorbed by the Montoneros guerilla movement. 'Needle in a Haystack' is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with detective Lascano. The first two are being ... Read more
Reviews for Needle in a Haystack (An Inspector Lascano Mystery)
What Mallo has achieved is a flawless, relentless work, a book the reader will find suffocating and yet impossible to put down.A" Diario Y Noticias Crime fiction continues to be an effective prism when focusing on political violence. Mallo's writing is hard and sharp. But the book is not simply a triumph of style because the story itself ... Read more