Praise for the books of Paco Ignacio Taibo II... "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling art lies in the 'wild and melancholy' tango of life he sees everywhere." -New York Times review of Some Clouds "Required reading for followers of the tradition of hard-boiled private eyes...No novelist since Fuentes has described Mexico City with more power." -The Nation Set amid the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Hector, who 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, 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. Paco Ignacio Taibo II has lived in Mexico City since 1958 when his family fled from Spain to escape the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Considered the founder of the neopolitical genre in Latin America, more than 500 editions of his 51 books have been published in 29 countries and a dozen languages. His novels featuring Mexican Private Investigator Hector Belascoaran Shayne are among his most popular works."

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Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. It's hard to get much more noir than Mexico City, and after several years' effort, Akashic was finally able to rope Paco I. Taibo into curating this dramatic, chilling, and frequently hilarious volume. Brand-new stories by: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Eugenio Aguirre, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Bernardo Fernandez Bef, Oscar de la Borbolla, Rolo Diez, Victor Luiz Gonzalez, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hernandez Luna, Myriam Laurini, Eduardo Monteverde, and Julia Rodriguez.

Fiction. Latino/Latino Studies. In alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with two intersecting storylines. The chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. There, the fictional "Subcomandante Marcos" assigns Elias Contreras--an odd but charming mountain man--to travel to Mexico City in search of an elusive and hideous murderer named "Morales." The second story line, penned by Taibo, stars his famous series detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Hector guzzles Coca-Cola and smokes cigarettes furiously amidst his philosophical and always charming approach to investigating crimes--in this case, the search for his own "Morales."

HEctor BelascoarAn Shayne es un hijo de la mAs vibrante ciudad de este planeta, la Ciudad de MExico, un monstruo urbano que estA a caballo entre el primer y tercer mundo, donde la violencia polItica y social llama a la puerta con demasiada frecuencia, donde la corrupciOn y los abusos del poder se cruzan con los absurdos de la vida cotidiana, todo ello bajo la luz mAs maravillosa del mundo, a la que no le molesta la contaminaciOn.

Como detective independiente, en una sociedad donde la honestidad y la curiosidad se encuentran bajo sospecha, las historias en las que se involucra van desde la accidental persecuciOn del enemigo pUblico nUmero 1, que claro estA, es un jefe policiaco; hasta el enfrentamiento con un asesino de mujeres, pasando por la bUsqueda del perdido pectoral de Moctezuma o de una conocida actriz de cine que desaparece en la frontera con Estados Unidos.

Probablemente sea un desastre con un revOlver en la mano, o sus conocimientos cientIficos no le permitan distinguir entre un licuado de plAtano y una copa de arsEnico, pero este hombre, que recorre una y otra vez la ciudad haciEndola suya, gana sus batallas a punta de tenacidad.