The Hydra head
By: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 291
Work titles: La cabeza de la hidra.English
Description: Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the diversity of one man's experience.
Notes: Translation of La cabeza de la hidra.