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By Manuel Ramos

ISBN-10: 1558857702

ISBN-13: 9781558857704

Gus Corral can’t really think it whilst an previous highschool blood brother he hasn’t obvious in years asks him for aid. Artie Baca seems as cool as ever; the hippest man in highschool now seems like a GQ hide boy, Chicano kind. and prefer consistently, Artie has girls difficulties, even if he’s married. He’s being blackmailed due to an imprudent fling—caught on video, in fact. Artie has a wealthy genuine property company and will come up with the money for to repay the younger lady, yet he’ll present Gus handsomely for his assist in convincing her that there won’t be any destiny funds.

Gus’s lifestyles hasn’t been as winning; he manages his ex-wife’s moment hand store after wasting his task within the recession and claims to additionally paintings because the evening watchman so he can reside there too. He can rather use the cash Artie is delivering and is of the same opinion to assist, even supposing he understands Artie most likely merits the shake down.

But earlier than Gus can bring the cash, Artie is useless and the police need to know why the deceased was once wearing a cost made out to his previous highschool buddy. And whilst an armed stranger breaks into the store at nighttime, Gus is familiar with there’s extra to the placement than meets the attention. An research into Artie’s involvement within the gentrification of Denver’s north part ends up in harrowing encounters with harmful criminals, either from the world and south of the border. unexpectedly Gus is ensnared within the robbery of 1 of the main respected spiritual symbols within the Catholic Latino global, a cloak bearing a twin of the Virgen de Guadalupe. he is stuck among warring gangs, and shortly he and the folks he cares approximately such a lot are in a life-and-death predicament.

Manuel Ramos returns to novel-length crime fiction with this gripping tale that twists and turns like a curler coaster, the place the outlook is grim and there’s no honor between thieves.

Praise for the paintings of Manuel Ramos:

"A very striking debut." --Los Angeles instances at the Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

“A thickly atmospheric first novel—with barely enough secret to carry jointly a powerfully elegiac memoir of the heady early days of Chicano activism.”—Kirkus studies at the Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

"Ramos succeeds brilliantly in marrying sort and substance to shape a seamlessly pleasing novel [with] characters and scenes deeply etched with admirable brevity and skill."
—Publishers Weekly, starred overview, on Blues for the Buffalo

MANUEL RAMOS is the recipient of numerous literary awards and the writer of various novels, together with King of the Chicanos (Wings Press, 2010), Brown-on-Brown: A Luis Montez secret (University of latest Mexico Press, 2003) and The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz (St. Martin’s Press, 1993; Northwestern collage Press, 2004), and Edgar Award finalist. He lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

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