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In the last twenty years, over 3000 women have disappeared from Ciudad Juarez, on the border between Mexico and the USA. Sam Hawken takes this story of mass murder and abduction and around it weaves the story of Kelly Courter, a washed up boxer from Texas, who doesn't mind playing the stooge in the ring, so long as he gets paid. Courter is sucked into the underworld of organised crime that flourishes in the city, soon finding himself in way over his head. As his life spins out of control he becomes obsessed with seeking the truth about the female victims of Juarez. Sam Hawken is a classic American voice and Kelly Courter is a timeless American hero, fighting for freedom and justice in this fast-paced and brutal novel.
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A beautifully written and deeply affecting crime novel dealing with the wasted life of an American boxer in the city of Juárez, Mexico, the missing women of that city and ultimately a small amount of justice that is awarded them. Hawken writes with a maturity that is rare for a first novel, and achieves both a great crime novel and a work that transcends the genre. This is the real deal: tragic, dark, heartfelt. The Dead Women of Juárez deserves to be massive. (Dave Zeltserman)
Sam Hawken's novel, The Dead Women of Juarez is the most stunning piece of work I've read in a long time. Based on the horrific true murders of those women, it is an instant classic.
The main character, Kelly, is one of the utterly compelling characters I've ever read. A beautiful compassionate gruelling novel, as ferocious to read as it is soul wrenching. Think The Wrestler meets Under the Volcano with the awful truth of the main events being true.
The depiction of the underbelly of Mexico is Dante's vision of hell, fuelled on drugs. A wondrous love affair between the washed up ex-boxer and the Mexican lady Paloma is epic and beautiful in its terrible foreboding.
This book will haunt you for a long long time and the dignity given to the mothers of the lost women is writing of a whole other dimension.
(Ken Bruen)This is a remarkable debut novel that heralds an exciting new talent to hit the crime writing scene. For just over 300 pages of gripping storytelling this book quite simply doesn't put a foot wrong. (Crimesquad.com)
Hawken trades in gritty realism... (Irish Times)
The Dead Woman of Juarez is a gritty, gripping noir. Like the best crime fiction, it also holds a mirror to some pretty horric realities and a fight for justice that shows no signs of being won anytime soon. If this is what Hawken does with his first novel, I'm looking forward to his next. (Crime Fiction Lover)
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A visceral crime novel based on the true story of mass murder in a Mexican border town
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- EditoreSerpent's Tail
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 184668773X
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- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine320
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