Paco Ignacio Taibo (II)

Subcomandante Marcos

Marcos (subcomandante.)

The highly anticipated surreal noir collaboration between Mexico's greatest writer and its most feared revolutionary.

(what's Missing is Missing) : a Novel by Four Hands

The Uncomfortable Dead

A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers, and American industrialists.

The Shadow of the Shadow

Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Mexico.

Mexico City Noir

Kriminalnoveller m.m. fra Mexico's barske hverdag

Nomás los muertos están bien contentos

Un estrangulador de mujeres anda suelto por la Ciudad de México. Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, ingeniero autojubilado y reconvertido en singular detective independiente, se lanza a una de las más extrañas cacerías que se hayan conocido para detener al asesino. Las únicas pistas para descifrar estos crímenes son las notas que aparecen en los cadáveres firmadas bajo el seudónimo de «Cerevro».

Serie Belascoarán

Días de combate (2013)

Angel de la Calle

el cuento

Todos los cuentos

Paco Ignacio Taibo II.

Solo tu sombra fatal

Sesenta y ocho

Un hombre guapo y otros personajes singulares de la revolución cubana de 1933

Paco Ignacio Taibo

Desvanecidos difuntos

De paso

"The sweetheart of Hector Belascoaran Shayne's adolescence, the same one who's become a famous Mexican movie star has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico border. Hector wanders la frontera looking for her. He falls in and out of love, he talks with the ghost of Pancho Villa, he asks lonely questions about the dirty business of narcotraficantes, and he listens closely to the story of the whores of Zacatecas."--Page 4 of cover.

A Héctor Belascoarán Shayne Detective Novel

Frontera Dreams

Some Clouds

Amorosos fantasmas

A lampoon against U.S. imperialism, by a Mexican crime writer. The bad guy is a U.S. secret agent spreading disinformation on Nicaragua's Sandinistas, the good guys are two journalists--a Mexican and an American--who are trying to expose him. By the author of Some Clouds.

Four Hands

A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir collaboration between Mexico's greatest writer and its most courageous revolutionary.

In alternating chapters, enigmatic Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and crime writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with intersecting storylines. Those chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, where, amid a hallucinatory blend of different voices, we meet El'as, a Zapatista detective tasked with locating missing people. Taibo's chapters star his Coca-Cola-and-cigarette-consuming series detective H'ctor Belascoar'n Shayne: a PI specialising in cases stranger than reality. The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of the city's political violence rears its head, and both detectives find themselves in an unlikely dance of death with forces at once criminal, historical, and political.

Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Revolution, rumored to be alive and hiding out in a cave outside Mexico City. Combining black comedy, social history and a touch of surrealism, Paco Taibo's wonderfully idiosyncratic detective novels are admired the world over and are particularly popular in Europe and in the Spanish-speaking world.

An Easy Thing

y otras historias que pasaron en algunas fábricas

El regreso de la verdadera araña

In this adventure novel set in 1920's post-revolutionary Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II is searching for a hero, specifically a leftist hero, and he thinks he has found him in the person of Sebastian San Vicente. But everyone - including the baffled novelist - is trying to figure out exactly who San Vicente really is. There is some record of San Vicente in FBI records during the Wilson era, and some mention of him in anarchist records and rumors, but the rest has to be filled in. And who better to do this than Taibo? Meanwhile - with Taibo busy in the background trying to resolve the mystery of his hero's identity - San Vicente goes about his heroic avocation of organizing strikes against the capitalists, dodging thugs and hiding out from the Mexican Army.

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