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On the dangerous journey back to Nicaragua from their Honduran exile, Inspector Morales and his old revolutionary comrade Serafín witness the brutal murder of their guide. Agents of the secret police are on their tail, forcing them to take temporary sanctuary with leftist priests, loyal friends, and common Nicaraguans, all swept up in the deranged cynicism, graft, and violence of a dictatorship built on the lies of a long-since-abandoned idealism. As Managua heaves with student protests, and hundreds die at the hands of police and paramilitary units, the inspector continues his dogged quest, uncovering a murky network full of secrets, betrayals and dark maneuvers that he will have to face, or be overwhelmed by. Dead Men Cast No Shadows’s unsparing portrait of a society shaped by corruption and poverty led to its author’s exile—but Ramírez’s vision of the Ortega regime’s savagery never overwhelms his exuberance or appreciation of the Nicaraguan people’s humanity, and their capacity for irony, resilience, and resistance. “The novel, episodic and long on colorful characters, often resembles a reunion. . . Banter flows, and references to pop culture and Nicaragua’s recent political turmoil abound. A lively valedictory caper from an ebullient storyteller"—Kirkus Reviews

Sergio Ramírez has authored more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Divine Punishment (McPherson 2015), A Thousand Deaths Plus One (McPherson, 2009), and The Sky Weeps for Me (McPherson, 2020). In 2021, upon the publication of the Spanish edition of Dead Men Cast No Shadows, he was driven into exile and in 2023 stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship. He now lives in Spain. In 2017 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, Spanish literature's highest literary award. He has also received Spain's Dashiel Hammet Award, France's Laure Bataillon Award, Cuba's José María Arguedas Latinamerican Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Alfaguara International Novel Award. Ramirez is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France, and a doctor honoris causa of Blaise Pascal University (France). He has received the International Prize for Human Rights awarded by the Bruno Kreisky Foundation, as well as the Order of Merit of the Federal Government of Germany. He held the Robert Kennedy Professorship in Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 2009.