- Seller Inventory #: 3500
- Book condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. (as new, but with a remainder line.)
- Edition: First US edition.
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0670824623
- ISBN 13: 9780670824625
- Publisher: New York: Viking, 1990.
- Date published: January 11, 1990
- Keywords: mexico city, latin america,
New York: Viking, 1990. . First US edition. . Fine in fine dust jacket. (as new, but with a remainder line.) . First novel of Taibo to appear in English - praised by such diverse writers as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Ross Thomas, etc. Introduces his jaded, one-eyed, half Basque detective, Hector Belascoran Shayne; set in Mexico City, this is a combination of irony, black humor and Latin fabulism. Translated from the Spanish by William I. Neuman. Recommended. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2007. 231 pp.