num_pages: 240
description: Based on an actual incident from Mexico's troubled history, The Shadow of the Shadow tells of four friends who become involved with international oil barons and a coterie of U.S. senators in a plot to split off the oil-producing Gulf Coast of Mexico from the rest of the country and set it up as an American client state. "A great, rip-roaring novel".--St. Louis Dispatch.
language: English
title: The Shadow of the Shadow
titlecomplete: The Shadow of the Shadow (Crime, Penguin)
genres: Literature, Crime, Thriller, Noir, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 544
places: Mexico City (México City)
publisher: Penguin Books