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The Acid Test
- Author
- Élmer Mendoza
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 1 December 2016
- Run Time
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The country is a powder keg, waiting for a spark, and Mendieta is about to enter the darkest days of his life. Corrupt politicians, failed boxers and unscrupulous arms dealers all lie in wait across the path to justice - none of which can prepare him for a brush with the F.B.I. when the father of the President of the United States is attacked on vacation. But for all these perils it is the weight of his own murky past that Lefty finds hardest to bear.
And as he scratches around for clues, faced with a gallery of suspects who all have a motive and that murderous glint in their eye, the reappearance of Samantha Valdés, now the boss of the Cartel del Pacífico, adds one more piece to an already impenetrable puzzle.
(P)2016 WF Howes Ltd
Critics Review
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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 Pérez-Reverte
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If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for something fresher, Élmer Mendoza . . . could be the answer
Sunday Times
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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
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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
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Essential reading.
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A vivid glimpse into an ultraviolent world of macho posturing, unorthodox policing and ruthless criminality.
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Details
- Author
- Élmer Mendoza
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Duration
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 December 2016
- ISBN
- 9780857057051
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Drugs trade / drug trafficking
Synopsis
When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody attrition against the Mexican state. The country is a powder keg, waiting for a spark, and Mendieta is about to enter the darkest days of his life. Corrupt politicians, failed boxers and unscrupulous arms dealers all lie in wait across the path to justice - none of which can prepare him for a brush with the F.B.I. when the father of the President of the United States is attacked on vacation. But for all these perils it is the weight of his own murky past that Lefty finds hardest to bear.And as he scratches around for clues, faced with a gallery of suspects who all have a motive and that murderous glint in their eye, the reappearance of Samantha Valdés, now the boss of the Cartel del Pacífico, adds one more piece to an already impenetrable puzzle.(P)2016 WF Howes Ltd
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