An Easy Thing

Name: An Easy Thing
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Mexico City detective navigates corruption while solving a murder among the homeless

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Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Paco Ignacio Taibo II is a Mexican journalist and crime writer who created Hector Belascoaran Shayne, a one-eyed Mexico City private detective, and founded the neo-polar movement in Latin America. His politically engaged crime novels use the detective genre to expose corruption and violence in Mexico. He has received the Dashiell Hammett Prize.

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