Todo Belascoarán
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
FICTION | 2021 | 824 pages
Something rotten hangs in the air in Mexico City: corruption and death run rampant, and Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, a self-retired engineer turned eccentric independent detective, sets out to solve a wide variety of cases populated by unique characters.
An actress disappears on the northern border; police officers, petty gangsters, and a bank-robbing gang fight over a fortune in dirty money that accidentally fell into the hands of a young widow; a teachers' union leader is accused of murdering a man seen drinking with police officers and local bosses; a serial strangler of women signs his crimes as Cerevro; the death of an aging wrestling champion; the recovery of Moctezuma's pectoral, stolen by the ranchera ex-lover of a former president; and other stories where suspense and humor intertwine.
A way to see and understand the largest city in the world and probably one of the most corrupt.
The Todo Belascoarán collection consists of Días de combate, Cosa fácil, Algunas nubes, No habrá final feliz, Regreso a la misma ciudad y bajo la lluvia, Amorosos fantasmas, Sueños de frontera, Desvanecidos difuntos; and Adiós, Madrid; a tribute that brings together the stories of the most well-known detective in Mexican crime fiction.
RIGHTS: spanish PLANETA
“Taibo is one of the precursors of the new Latin American noir. He is a linguistically gifted writer that offers a tense chronicle that gives meaning to the concept of global village.”
“Paco Taibo II evokes the melancholy of Chandler ́s storytelling without imitating it while keeping their old poetical tone and enriching it with a touch of Latin American magical realism.”
BY PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II:
Pancho Villa
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La libertad
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La historia del gueto de varsovia
NONFICTION, 2022
Todo Belascoarán
FICTION, 2021
El general orejón ese
NONFICTION, 2021
Yaquis
NONFICTION, 2020
Cuentos incompletos
SHORT STORIES, 2020
Cuatro manos
FICTION, 2020
Retornamos como sombras
FICTION, 2020
Temporada de zopilotes
NONFICTION, 2020
La bicicleta de Leonardo
FICTION, 2020
Bolcheviques
NONFICTION, 2019
De paso
FICTION, 2017
68
NONFICTION, 2016
Héroes convocados
FICTION, 2016
El Álamo
NONFICTION, 2013
El ciego, la cabeza y el golpe
SHORT STORIES, 2013
La vida misma
FICTION, 2012
Los libres no reconocen rivales
NONFICTION, 2012
La lejanía del tesoro
FICTION, 2011
El retorno de los tigres de Malasia
FICTION, 2011
Olga Forever
FICTION, 2007
Doña Eustolia blandió el cuchillo cebollero
SHORT STORIES, 2003
Arcángeles
FICTION, 1998
Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che
NONFICTION, 1996