![]() ![]() Moreno-Garcia follows both Elvis and Maite, who have a few things in common-they’re both avid readers, with Maite favoring romance magazines in particular, and they’re both suckers for old crooner-style music. Elvis’ search leads him to a 30-year-old legal secretary named Maite who agreed to feed Leonora’s cat while she was gone and who is herself looking for Leonora. The god of the Old Testament, that, as a good Catholic boy, he’d learned to fear.” El Mago gives Elvis an assignment: Find a young college student named Leonora who’s gone missing along with some photos El Mago desperately wants. Elvis is in thrall to the group’s leader, El Mago, a mysterious but charismatic figure: “He was Elvis’s god, but a dark god. ![]() “Life’s a mess.” That’s the motto of Elvis, a 21-year-old man working as an enforcer for the Hawks, a government-sponsored black-ops group whose mission is to spy on, suppress, and harass left-wing protesters and activists. ![]() An enforcer and a secretary search for a missing student in this explosive noir novel set in 1971 Mexico. ![]()
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