Olga Lavanderos
Paco Ignacio Taibo II

FICTION | 2012 | 248 pages

The young journalist Olga Lavanderos is determined to uncover the truth behind the crimes she is investigating, so she can publish her findings in the newspaper La Capital. Accompanied by a four-year-old boy, who speaks Spanish like a Brazilian footballer, and her grandfather, a fugitive for fifty years after fleeing on a ship laden with oil on the day of the oil nationalisation, Olga descends into the underworld of Mexico City. Her unbreakable will leads her to risk her life, with the sole aim of finding the truth and securing some measure of justice in one of the most corrupt cities on the planet. With a hilarious sense of humour and exceptional pacing, in Feeling That the Battlefield... and But You Know fFll Well That Everything Is Impossible*, Paco Ignacio Taibo II pays tribute to journalism, “the last bloody barrier preventing us from descending into barbarism”, through the most endearing journalist in Mexican crime fiction.

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