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Mendoza's style is spare but fast-paced . . . As the plot moves along the reader is swept along with it. Lefty is a likeable character who has somehow managed to find a way to navigate through all the killing aided by a detachment which serves him well. -- Matthew Geden * Irish Examiner. * Essential reading. -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express. * If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza . . . could be the answer. -- John Dugdale * Sunday Times. * A vivid glimpse into an ultraviolent world of macho posturing, unorthodox policing and ruthless criminality. -- Laura Wilson * Guardian. * 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. 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. *

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. 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. - Sunday Telegraph. A vivid glimpse into an ultraviolent world of macho posturing, unorthodox policing and ruthless criminality. - Guardian. If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza . . . could be the answer. - Sunday Times. Essential reading. - Sunday Express.

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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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