Return to the Same City (Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novels) - Softcover

Taibo, Paco Ignacio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590581369 ISBN 13: 9781590581360

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011

Synopsis

Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated by mariachis and machine guns, incompetent bikini contest judges, and at least one killer who is closer to Hector than he thinks....

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Review:

"How do we coexist without rotting in sadness?" asks private detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne of his beleaguered and beloved Mexico. Not your typical PI, Shayne is prone to bouts of existential crisis. But that doesn't stop him from trying to solve the murder of a Cuban rhumba dancer's wife. Nor does it protect him from a fusillade of bullets fired by a Mariachi band, or from an entanglement with the C.I.A. while in Mexico investigating the woman's death. Paco Ignacio Taibo killed off Shayne in No Happy Ending,but he has resurrected the one-eyed sleuth for Return to the Same City. How? Who knows? A deep thinker and a darkly humorous character, Shayne is the perfect companion for a literary visit to the spiritual side of Mexico.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590581369
• ISBN 13: 9781590581360
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 153