The Uncomfortable Dead (What's Missing Is Missing): A Novel by Four Hands
Subcomandante Marcos, Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, , trans. from the Spanish by Carlos Lopez. . Akashic, $15.95 (268pp) ISBN 978-1-933354-07-1
Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern revolutionary politics. Elías Contreras, a detective for the Zapatista National Liberation Army (and Marcos's creation), heads to Mexico City to investigate the case of a nefarious government-backed murderer named Morales. Taibo brings back one-eyed Mexico City detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne (
Reviewed on: 07/10/2006
Genre: Fiction