Book description
It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic
meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force
known to all as the National Shame, is a shadow of his former self,
scraping by as a bathroom salesman. He cannot forget the enigmatic woman
he met in a dance hall. She left him when she found out who he was
working for, and he has never recovered from the blow. Late one evening,
Martelli is summoned to a friends coastal retreat. He arrives to find
his friend dead and is drawn into a bewildering sequence of events, on
an odyssey that leads him through vast, empty pampas, along endless
highways and into ghost towns seething with danger and brutality, to the
ailing heart of his country. Before long he is forced to uncover the
truth of his past life. It is a dangerous confession: after all, no-one
loves a policeman. A highly original crime novel with a rich, dark
humour, a host of extraordinary characters and plenty of smoking guns.
It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown.
Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all
as the National Shame, is a shadow of his former self, scraping by as a
bathroom salesman. He cannot forget the enigmatic woman he met in a
dance hall. She left him when she found out who he was working for, and
he has never recovered from the blow. Late one evening, Martelli is
summoned to a friends coastal retreat. He arrives to find his friend
dead and is drawn into a bewildering sequence of events, on an odyssey
that leads him through vast, empty pampas, along endless highways and
into ghost towns seething with danger and brutality, to the ailing heart
of his country. Before long he is forced to uncover the truth of his
past life. It is a dangerous confession: after all, no-one loves a
policeman. A highly original crime novel with a rich, dark humour, a
host of extraordinary characters and plenty of smoking guns.
