Death in Veracruz
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hector Aguilar Camin ; translation by Chandler Thompson
Contributors: Thompson, Chandler, 1939- translator
Edition: First English language edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781936182923; 9781936182930; 9781936182947; 9781936182954
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Politics and government; Petroleos Mexicanos; Oil industry workers; Fiction
Work titles: Morir en el Golfo
Description: "This novel marks the long-awaited arrival in English of a masterful voice in Mexican and noir fiction "Death in Veracruz "is a gritty and atmospheric noir centered on the so-called oil wars of the late 1970s, which pitted the extremely powerful and corrupt government-owned oil cartel PEMEX against the agrarian landowners in the coastal regions of Southern Mexico. This novel, translated for the first time in English since its publication 30 years ago, concerns a journalist who investigates the death of a colleague and friend Rojano in a bizarre shooting incident that takes place in a small rural village, and who finds himself up against crooked police and a charismatic and ruthless union boss . But, as he gets deeper into this Mexican Heart of Darkness, he finds Rojano was not all he seemed, and neither was his widow with whom he falls into a doomed affair."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Original title: Morir en el Golfo.