Jo Greaver is a model of success. Young and ambitious, sheβs built a thriving beauty business from nothing. But she has secrets sheβll do anything to keep buried. When her blackmailer offers to meet, Jo expects to pay him offβbut gets a bullet instead. Bleeding and in shock, Jo flees with no one to
Don't Send Flowers
β Scribed by Martin Solares
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 281 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0802146201
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β¦ Synopsis
**"A dry, sharp x-ray of the horror of life in the Gulf, the network of complicity, the scope of tragedy. A gritty, direct, exciting novel that is a must-read for anyone who wants to look at the hell that the Gulf (and Mexico at the same time) has become." --Antonio OrtuΓ±o **
From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot DΓaz as "Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest," Don't Send Flowers is a riveting novel centered on Carlos TreviΓ±o, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and widespread violence that caused him to leave the force, when he's hired by a wealthy businessman to find his missing daughter.
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