Synopses & Reviews
The sweetheart of Héctor Balascorán Shayne’s adolescence-the same one who has become a famous Mexican movie star-has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico Border. Her daughter hires the detective to find her and bring her home. He wanders la frontera, traveling the empty roads between Tijuana and Mexicali and Juárez. Between nostalgia and reality. 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. They, like his sweetheart, seem to have disappeared forever, their absence creating chaos back home. Balascorán Shayne, who at heart is an anarchist and incurable romantic, answers his own questions with two sticks of dynamite. Only then can he say goodbye to the beloved of his youth.
The Héctor Balascorán Shayne detective series are best sellers in Mexico, Latin America and Europe. In the U.S., Belascorán Shayne has a rabid and growing clan of aficionados, but to insure that the popularity of the series continues to grow, editor Bobby Byrd and translator William Verner add an Afterword for Frontera Dreams. Their essay includes a biography of the detective, a brief synopsis of the novels to date and an artist’s sketch of him. The drawing portrays all the scars on his bullet-riddled body and details in which novel Paco Ignacio Taibo II inflicted these myriad wounds on his beleaguered hero.
Synopsis
Taibo's very private eye searches for a disappeared actress amid the border's surreal anarchy.
The sweetheart of H ctor Balascor n Shayne's adolescence-the same one who has become a famous Mexican movie star-has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico Border. Her daughter hires the detective to find her and bring her home. He wanders la frontera, traveling the empty roads between Tijuana and Mexicali and Ju rez. Between nostalgia and reality. 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. They, like his sweetheart, seem to have disappeared forever, their absence creating chaos back home. Balascor n Shayne, who at heart is an anarchist and incurable romantic, answers his own questions with two sticks of dynamite. Only then can he say goodbye to the beloved of his youth.
The H ctor Balascor n Shayne detective series are best sellers in Mexico, Latin America and Europe. In the U.S., Belascor n Shayne has a rabid and growing clan of aficionados, but to insure that the popularity of the series continues to grow, editor Bobby Byrd and translator William Verner add an Afterword for Frontera Dreams. Their essay includes a biography of the detective, a brief synopsis of the novels to date and an artist's sketch of him. The drawing portrays all the scars on his bullet-riddled body and details in which novel Paco Ignacio Taibo II inflicted these myriad wounds on his beleaguered hero.
Synopsis
Fiction. First Published in Mexico in 1990, and now translated by Bill Verner for Cinco Puntos, this is volume seven in the history of Hector Belascoaran Shayne, revenant detective, man of sorrows, conscience of a hemisphere. Taibo is the Raymond Chandler of the post-68 generation. He is the Mahfouz of the Federal District. "Hector is like all men, his life a series of deaths and resurrections. How can he fail to return? Like he says -- 'Endings are so abrupt.only beginnings have grace.'"--Jessica Powers. "My secret wish is to become one of the characters of [Tabio's] fiction, all of them drawn from the wit and wisdom of popular imagination"-Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate.
Synopsis
Taibo's very private eye searches for a disappeared actress amid the border's surreal anarchy.
About the Author
Paco Ignacio Taibo II (born 11 January 1949 in Gijn, Asturias), birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo, has lived in Mexico City since 1958 when his family fled from Spain to escape the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. Taibo II (or PIT, as he likes to be called) is a spanish leftist intellectual, historian, professor, journalist, social activist, union organizer, and world-renowned writer. Widely known for his policial novels, he is considered the founder of the neopolicial genre in Latin America and is the president of the International Association of Policial Writers. One of the most prolific writers in Mexico today, over 500 editions of his 51 books have been published in 29 countries and over a dozen languages, and include novels, narrative, historical essays, chronicles, and poetry.