Needle in a Haystack is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with detective. He is a former militant, pursued by the dictatorship as a member of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, which was later absorbed by the Montoneros guerilla movement. Needle in a Hay Stack is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with superintendent Lascano. Born in 1948, Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is a former anti-Junta militant who was pursued by the dictatorship. When Lascano digs too deep, he must confront Giribaldi, an army major, quick to help old friends but ruthless in dealing with dissenters such as Eva, the young militant with whom Lascano is falling in love.īorn in 1948, Ernesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and playwright. The third corpse turns out to be that of Biterman, moneylender and Auschwitz survivor.
The trail leads Lascano through a decadent Argentina, a country poisoned to its core by the tyranny of the regime. Two are clearly the work of the Junta's death squads, murders he is forced to ignore the other one seems different. Sent to investigate a double murder, he arrives at the crime scene to find three bodies.
Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. But above all he knows how to narrate."-Ana Maria Shua, author of El peso de la tentacion He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. "This is not simply a triumph of style it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."-Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize
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