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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 ... 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 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

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 ... 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 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 Essential reading. -- Jake Kerridge Sunday Express. A vivid glimpse into an ultraviolent world of macho posturing, unorthodox policing and ruthless criminality. -- Laura Wilson Guardian.

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, lmer Mendoza ... 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

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 ... 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

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 ... 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 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 Essential reading. -- Jake Kerridge 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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