An easy thing: a h-ector belascoar-an shayne detective novel: Novel

✍ Scribed by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II

• Book ID: 100363915
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Year: 2002;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Scottsdale;Ariz
• ISBN: 1615953418

✦ Synopsis

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 Héctor Belascoarán 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.

✦ Subjects

Mystery Thriller