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Louis de Bernieres - Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord - 9780749399627 - KAC0003058
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Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord

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Description for Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord Paperback. Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224. Clean copy with minor shelf wear

‘Sharp, funny, engaging’ Financial Times

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Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the bodies that keep turning up outside his front door.

To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realises that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749399627
SKU
KAC0003058
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Louis de Bernieres
Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter, a collection of stories, Notwithstanding, and a collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria.

Reviews for Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord
Sharp, funny, engaging...de Bernieres is doing for Colombia's drug culture what Tom Sharpe did for apartheid. His approach is flippant, but the purpose behind it is deadly serious
Financial Times
Vibrant, lucid, charged with wild jokes and harrowing scenes smelted with torture...a book which shudders with memorability...satirical and splendid
Scotland on Sunday
It's a delightfully mesmerising ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord


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