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Holy City

Guillermo Orsi

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Argentina, Fiction, Thriller / suspense, Fiction in translation, Violence in society, Organized crime

Welcome to the Holy City, where bent cops are ten a peso, and it is only the degree of corruption that is ever in question.

A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Rio de la Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by Buenos Aires' criminal classes.

As the kidnapping of three foreign businessmen sends stock markets into freefall, the job of solving the chaos falls onto the weary shoulders of Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza of the serious-crime squad.

But top of his agenda is former Miss Bolivia Ana Torrente. Why are the bodies of the men who try to take her to bed always found minus a head?

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Guillermo Orsi

Guillermo Orsi was born in Buenos Aires, where he still lives and works as a journalist. His novel SueA os de perro won the Semana Negra Umbriel Award in 2004.

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