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Paco Ignaci Taibo II
Full Series List in Order
A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novel
1 - An Easy Thing (Jan-1990)2 - Some Clouds (Jul-1992)
3 - No Happy Ending (Sep-1993)
4 - Frontera Dreams (May-2002)
5 - Return to the Same City (Jan-2005)
Shadow
1 - The Shadow of a Shadow (Jul-1991)2 - Returning as Shadows (Feb-2003)
Subcomandante Marcos
The Uncomfortable Dead (Sep-2006)Book List in Order: 14 titles
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An Easy Thing
- Jan-1990
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Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, ...
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The Shadow of a Shadow
- Jul-1991
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"The Shadow of the Shadow follows four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City in 1922. They are a motley group-a gun-toting poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organi...
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Some Clouds
- Jul-1992
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Mexico City detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Héctor discovers that Anita, recently married into the wealthy Costa...
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No Happy Ending
- Sep-1993
- / Mystery
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The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in...
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Four Hands
- Jul-1994
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Description: The narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's wonderfully inventive novel, Four Hands, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American government agency to vilify the...
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Life Itself
- Oct-1994
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A Mexican crime novelist, Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro decides to become the police chief of Santa Anna and fights gunslingers, traitors, lunatics, and visionaries to find the murderer of an American photographer. Reprint....
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Leonardo's Bicycle
- Sep-1995
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In a study of the effects of a century of violence on the nature of imagination, revolutionaries, radicals, criminals, and dreamers chase a wild goose into a hail of gunfire, while Leonardo da Vinci hovers overhead on a bicycle that will not be inven...
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Just Passing Through
- Feb-2000
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A true left-wing adventure novel with Paco at his post-modern best.
In this elegant and literate adventure novel set in 1920's post-revolutionary Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II is searching for a hero, specifically a leftist hero, and he thinks he h...
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Frontera Dreams
- May-2002
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The sweetheart of Héctor Balascorán Shayne’s adolescence-the same one who has become a famous Mexican movie star-has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico Border. Her daughter hires the detective to find her and bring her hom...
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Returning as Shadows
- Feb-2003
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In 1991, Paco Taibo II wrote The Shadow of a Shadow, a book about four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City. The time is 1922, and the men are a motley group -- a poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicin...
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Return to the Same City
- Jan-2005
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Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, the rumba dancer and the recently dead detective make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulc...
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The Uncomfortable Dead
- Sep-2006
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Fiction. In this highly anticipated surreal noir collaboration between Mexico's greatest writer and its most feared revolutionary, the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos create an uproarious murder ...
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Calling All Heroes
- Jul-2010
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The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexi...
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Mexico City Noir
- Oct-2021
- / General Fiction
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Latin American noir at its finest. “[A] diverse collection of stories which reflect the harshness and also the brittle brilliance of life in Mexico City.” (MostlyFiction Book Reviews)Akashic Books' acclaimed series of original noir anthol...