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Un Asesino Solitario / A Lone Assassin

Un Asesino Solitario / A Lone Assassin

Mendoza, Élmer

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 6073865791
ISBN13: 9786073865791
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.22
Language: Spanish
«Se me había restituido el poder y la capacidad de chingar, y pues no me la andaba acabando de contento.

Jorge Macías es un pistolero al servicio del gobierno. Lo apodan el Europeo por el escrúpulo con que asume su trabajo: eliminar a los enemigos del sistema. A finales del sexenio, sin embargo, se queda sin trabajo ya que el presidente ha decidido pasar el tiempo que le resta inaugurando obras sin terminar y cosechando aplausos. Alejado del poder, Macías se siente extraviado. Por ello, cuando lo llaman para una misión especial, acepta a pesar de la enorme dificultad del encargo: asesinar al candidato presidencial del partido oficial. Conforme se interna en un territorio que se disputan narcotraficantes y policías judiciales, descubrirá que diversas conspiraciones pueden coincidir ferozmente en un solo hombre.

Un asesino solitario es la asombrosa primera novela de Élmer Mendoza. Desde su aparición en 1999, esta novela situó a su autor en el escenario principal de la literatura mexicana, convirtiéndolo, como apunta Arturo Pérez-Reverte, en «el patriarca de la literatura norteña .

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With my power and license to do damage restored, I couldn't have been happier.

Jorge Macías is a government hitman, nicknamed the European for the fastidiousness he employs in his mission: eliminating enemies of the system. As the end of the administration approaches, however, he finds himself out of a job, with the outgoing president dedicating the time he has left in office to inaugurating new works and reveling in public adulation. Expelled from the inner circle of power, Macías feels lost. When he's called back for a special mission, he eagerly accepts, despite the enormity of the task: assassinating the ruling party's presidential candidate. As he ventures into territory disputed by drug cartels and the federal police, Macías discovers that all the conspiracies he is following lead back to a single man.

First published in 1999, A Lone Assassin marked Élmer Mendoza's first foray into fiction, elevating him to the ranks of Mexico's leading authors and earning him the title of, in the words of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, the father of Norteño literature.

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