The best fucking novel ever written about Mexico City.

Francisco Goldman

A gripping and hilarious literary masterpiece masquerading as a Mexico City crime novel

The Mongolian Conspiracy

by Rafael Bernal

Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver

With a contribution by Francisco Goldman

Only a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto García — an impeccably groomed “gun for hire,” ex–Mexican revolutionary, and classic antihero — is recruited by the Mexican police to discover how much truth there might be to KGB and CIA reports of a Chinese-Mongolian plot to assassinate the Mexican and American presidents during the unveiling of a statue in Mexico City.

García kills various criminals as he searches for clues in the opium dens, curio shops, and Cantonese restaurants of Mexico City’s Chinatown — clues that appear to point not to Mongolia, but to Cuba. Yet as the bodies pile up, he begins to find traces of slimy political dealings: are local gears grinding away in these machinations of an “international incident”? Pulsating behind the smokescreen of this classic noir are fierce curses, a shockingly innocent affair, smoldering dialog, and unforgettable riffs about the meaning of life, the Mexican Revolution, women, and the best gun to use for close-range killing.

Paperback(published Nov, 25 2013)

ISBN
9780811220668
Price US
14.95
Price CN
16
Page Count
192

Ebook(published Nov, 25 2013)

ISBN
9780811221955
Price US
14.95
Portrait of Rafael Bernal

Rafael Bernal

Mexican writer

The best fucking novel ever written about Mexico City.

Francisco Goldman

The Mongolian Conspiracy is ’60s noir to the core.

Word Bookstores

Rafael Bernal’s The Mongolian Conspiracy, written in 1969, is a masterful work of hilarity and noir.

Juan Vidal, NPR