Shadow of the Shadow

Name: Shadow of the Shadow
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ISBN: 9781933693002

ISBN-10: 1933693002

ISBN-13: 9781933693002

Edition: 2006

Authors: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, William I. Neuman

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Shadow of the Shadow follows four men in 1922 who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City. They are a motley group-a gun-toting poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organizer, a lawyer who represents prostitutes, and a newspaper crime reporter who churns out pages of copy "like links of sausage in a chorizo factory." Left to their own devices, the group would have waited out Carranza's presidency in their own quietly besotted fashion, ignoring the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution. But they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Lee & Low Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 233
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792