Death in Veracruz A Novel

by Camín, Hector Aguilar

• ISBN13: 9781936182923
• ISBN10: 1936182920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-10-19
• Publisher: Schaffner Press, Inc.

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Hector Aguilar Camín is a Mexican writer, journalist, and historian. He is the recipient of Mexico’s Cultural Journalism National Award and three years later he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation while he was working as a researcher for the National Institute of Anthropology and History. As a journalist, he has written for La Jornada, Unomásuno, and Milenio. He edited Nexos, one of the leading cultural magazines in the country, and hosted Zona abierta, a weekly current-affairs show on national television. He received the Literature Award for his book Mazatlan: A Breath in the River and is the author of the novels Galio’s War, Los Mujeres de Adriano, and Mandatos del Corazon, and the memoir Adios a los Padres.