Death in Veracruz

A Novel

by Hector Aguilar Camin

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Pub Date Oct 01 2015 | Archive Date Feb 03 2016

Timothy Schaffner | Schaffner Press, Inc.

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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.

Advance Praise

“Death in Veracruz is a marvel, the book provides us with lyric density we only find in genius. I will immediately read everything he has written.” – Jim Harrison

Full endorsement: “After years of (my) complaining that the works of Aguilar Camín, by far one of the most talented novelists in Latin America, have been unavailable in English, one of his masterpieces is finally ready for readers in the States to savor. Death in Veracruz is not only an extraordinary thriller and love story, but also a heartbreaking critique of Mexican corruption, as relevant today, alas, as it was when it was first published decades ago to great acclaim.”
Ariel Dorfman
Author of Death and the Maiden

Death in Veracruz is a Byzantine knot of friendship, betrayal, love, ambition, politics, money, oil and murder...recommended for fans of politics, thrillers, history and Mexico.–– Foreword Reviews, Fall Issue

“Death in Veracruz is a marvel, the book provides us with lyric density we only find in genius. I will immediately read everything he has written.” – Jim Harrison

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Death in Veracruz is a Byzantine knot of friendship, betrayal, love, ambition, politics, money, oil and murder...recommended for fans of politics, thrillers, history and Mexico.

Kirkus Interview with Author planned
Death in Veracruz is a Byzantine knot of friendship, betrayal, love, ambition, politics, money, oil and murder...recommended for fans of politics, thrillers...