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For Detective Edgar ""Lefty"" Mendieta, tormented by past heartbreak and dismayed by all-pervasive corruption, the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in Culiacan, Mexico's capital of narco-crime. There is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister and the lover of a drug lord's daughter, and he nurtured a penchant for cross-dressing and edgy sex. But why did the assassin use a silver bullet? And why, six days later, did he apparently strike again? Mendieta's hunt for the killer takes him from mansions to low-life bars, from gumshoe reporters to glamourous transsexuals. Unearthing the truth can be as dangerous as any drug.

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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 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 If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza's dazzling Silver Bullets could be the answer -- John Dugdale Sunday Times 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 Casts a wide net over modern Mexican life and an array of well-drawn characters, some powerful, some weak, some depraved ... Mendoza's creation is nothing like standard pulp fiction -- Justin Warshaw Times Literary Supplement

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 If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Elmer Mendoza's dazzling Silver Bullets could be the answer - Sunday Times 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 - Independent Casts a wide net over modern Mexican life and an array of well-drawn characters, some powerful, some weak, some depraved . . . Mendoza's creation is nothing like standard pulp fiction - Times Literary Supplement

Casts a wide net over modern Mexican life and an array of well-drawn characters, some powerful, some weak, some depraved . . . Mendoza's creation is nothing like standard pulp fiction -- Justin Warshaw * Times Literary Supplement * 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's dazzling Silver Bullets 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

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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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