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    An Easy Thing: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Mystery
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    An Easy Thing: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Mystery

    By Paco Ignacio Taibo II

    3.5/5

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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 Héctor Belascoarán Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet’s teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Revolution, rumored to be alive and hiding out in a cave outside Mexico City.
    Combining black comedy, social history and a touch of surrealism, Paco Taibo’s wonderfully idiosyncratic detective novels are admired the world over and are particularly popular in Europe and in the Spanish-speaking world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
    Release dateJul 20, 2012
    ISBN9781615953417
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    An Easy Thing: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Mystery
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    Paco Ignacio Taibo II

    Paco Ignacio Taibo II, or PIT, was born in Gijón, Spain in 1949, before fleeing Franco’s dictatorship with his family in 1958. He has resided in Mexico City ever since, where he’s built a career as a writer, journalist, historian, and perhaps most crucially, a founder of the neopolicial genre in Latin America. His books have been published in twenty-nine countries and translated into nearly as many languages. In addition to being a prolific writer, he is an active member of the international crime writing community and organizes Semana Negra or “Noir Week” in his native Gijón. He has won the Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prize three times, as well as the Mexican Premio Planeta, and several other awards for international crime fiction.

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    • 5/5
      Mexican noir. I love it.
    • 4/5
      Available in English as "An Easy Thing." I give this four stars for readers who know about Mexican history and politics, especially the 1970's. For lay readers simply looking for a good detective story, I would drop it down to three stars. The protagonist is a left wing private eye who is working on three cases at the same time. This is a brisk read.
    • 4/5
      A triple mystery exploring Mexico: Taibo's shabby PI searches for Zapata still hiding in a cave, struggles against corrupt execs after an engineer gets offed and the union is taking over, and fights blackmailers who have sex pix of the normal suspects (govt officials) and movie stars. As you might have guessed, it's funny as hell.