LEADER 02791oam 2200433z- 450 001 9910162666303321 005 20161028084701.0 010 $a1-68144-286-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001044389 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001044389 100 $a20190630c2017uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aAcid test /$fElmer Mendoza. ; translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried 210 $cMacLehose Press 311 $a1-68144-289-2 330 $a"When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded, and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody attrition against the Mexican state. The country is a powder keg, waiting for a spark, and Mendieta is about to enter the darkest days of his life. Corrupt politicians, failed boxers, and unscrupulous arms dealers all lie in wait along the path to justice. But none of this can prepare him for his run-in with the F.B.I., when the father of the President of the United States is attacked while on vacation in Mexico. For all these perils it is the weight of his own murky past that Lefty finds hardest to bear. And as he scratches around for clues, faced with a gallery of suspects who all have a motive and none of whom is a stranger to the dark arts of murder, the reappearance of Samantha Valde?s, now the boss of the Cartel del Paci?fico, adds one more jagged piece to an already unsolvable puzzle"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering noir from the Godfather of Mexican Narco-lit"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aDetectives$zMexico$vFiction 606 $aStripteasers$xDeath$vFiction 606 $aMurder$xInvestigation$vFiction 606 $aNarco-terrorism$vFiction 606 $aWomen drug dealers$vFiction 606 $aFICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural$2bisacsh 607 $aMexico$vFiction 608 $aNoir fiction.$2gsafd 615 0$aDetectives 615 0$aStripteasers$xDeath 615 0$aMurder$xInvestigation 615 0$aNarco-terrorism 615 0$aWomen drug dealers 615 7$aFICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural. 676 $a863/.64 686 $aFIC022020$2bisacsh 700 $aMendoza$b Elmer$01249137 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162666303321 996 $aAcid test$92894852 997 $aUNINA