That's exactly why they always call me, because they want people dead and want to keep their own hands clean. He's good at what he does ('a stiff factory - assembly line') and: 45 is a part of him - 'as much as his name and past. The Mongolian Conspiracy's central character is Filiberto García, and much of the novel is spent in this hit-man's head.Īs he explains: 'My business is to make stiffs', and he's made a lot of them. With its constant shifts between first and third person - omniscient narration and (heated) interior monologue - author Bernal adroitly pulls readers into his fast-paced (the clock is ticking. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. (.) The real magic is in the character of García himself, a walking anachronism in the freewheeling counterculture of the late 1960s.' - Publishers Weekly '(T)his Mexico City noir is a lot of fun and packs an unexpected wallop, despite its Cold War kitsch.The conclusion will not be apparent until it's right in front of you even then, you'll be surprised by its cynicism.' - J.C.Gabel, The Los Angeles Times 'As the hot bills start turning up, the bodies pile up and a game of who's-plotting-what-against-whom commences.

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El complot mongol by Rafael Bernal