Taibo II, Paco Ignacio

New York. 1995. September 1995. Mysterious Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0892965894. Translated from the Spanish by Martin Michael Roberts. 453 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jackie Merri Meyer. Jacket illustration by Jose Ortega. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - September 1995. In 1994 LEONARDO'S BICYCLE won the Latin American Dashiell Hammett Award for the best crime novel of the year - the third Hammett Award for the exceptional Paco Ignacio Taibo II. In this story, Taibo soars over the genre much as Leonardo himself floats above the violent plot - imbuing its twists and turns with the artist's obsessions with painting, sculpture, war machines, submarines, and a two-wheeled conveyance that would not be invented for another four hundred years . In smog-shrouded, pastel-hued Mexico City, the famous writer of crime fiction, Jose Daniel Fierro, falls in love with the televised image of a young woman basketball player. During the mad, violent days of revolution in 1920s Spain, a journalist, accused of crimes ‘against opinion,' searches for the anarchist named Angel del Hierro, the most wanted man in Barcelona. In New York City's Chelsea Hotel, a former CIA man, the last American to flee a dying South Vietnam, makes up unreadable novels in his mind. JosE Daniel Fierro will go to Ciudad Juarez and find his basketball player lying near death - kidnapped, drugged, beaten, her kidney taken from her. Angel del Hierro will disguise himself as everything from an admiral to an organ grinder, while the journalist called the Flea will discover the lost works of Leonardo da Vinci. And the ex-CIA man will leave New York for Mexico in pursuit of a secret that stretches back to the fall of Saigon. A south-of-the-border/Iberian noir adventure story, a political psychodrama, and a meditation on the effects of a century of violence on the nature of imagination itself, LEONARDO'S BICYCLE features a cast of radicals, criminals, and dreamers, all on a wild goose chase that lead them into hails of gunfire. And around them circles the man on his bicycle. inventory #23723 ISBN: 0892965894.