Sweet Money (Inspector Lascano Mystery) - Softcover

Ernesto Mallo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904738737 ISBN 13: 9781904738732

Publisher: BITTER LEMON PRESS, 2011

Synopsis

Following Needle In a Haystack (Bitter Lemon, 2010), the second book in the trilogy featuring Inspector Lascano is set in the early 1980s, just after the fall of the dictatorship. Times have changed and Lascano, no longer in the police, has been reluctantly drawn into a war between his protector, Jorge Turcheli, a cop promised the highly lucrative post of Chief of Police Buenos Aires, and the Apostles gang, drug-dealing cops who will stop at nothing to terminate Turcheli's career...

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Review:

Praise for 'Needle in a Haystack' by Ernesto Mallo(ISBN: 978-1904738-565, published in June 2010: 'Mallo, a newspaper columnist, playwright and former opponent of the then military regime, paints a vivid and compelling picture of a society riven by corruption, social breakdown and casual brutality. Pacy, intense and thought-provoking read.' Guardian 'Martin Cruz Smith and Philip Kerr fans will be rewarded.' Publishers Weekly 'A gritty, painful portrait of a dystopian culture spinning further and further out of control. A compelling document of tyranny told with skill and passion.' Crime Time

About the Author:

Born in 1948, Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is a former militant, pursued by the dictatorship as a member of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, which was later absorbed by the Montoneros guerilla movement. 'Needle in a Haystack' and 'Sweet Money', the first two of the Lascano trilogy, are being made into films in Argentina.

About this edition

• Publisher: BITTER LEMON PRESS
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1904738737
• ISBN 13: 9781904738732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267