num_pages: 289
description: Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country even for Maite a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor the beautiful art student Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances Maite finds herself searching for the missing womanand journeying deeper into Leonoras secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Mexico in the 1970s is a politically fraught land even for Elvis a goon with a passion for rock n roll who knows more about kidney-smashing than intrigue. When Elvis is assigned to find Leonora he begins a blood-soaked search for the womanand his soul. Swirling in parallel trajectories Maite and Elvis attempt to discover the truth behind Leonoras disappearance encountering hitmen government agents and Russian spies. Because Mexico in the 1970s is a noir where life is cheap and the price of truth is high.From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary a lonesome enforcer and the mystery of the missing woman theyre both desperate to find.
language: English
title: Velvet Was the Night
publisher: Del Rey