Years after his unceremonious firing from the National Police after an act of heroic insubordination recounted in The Sky Weeps for Me, Inspector Dolores Morales - barely scraping by as a private eye - finds himself summoned before Miguel Soto, a powerful Nicaraguan oligarch whose step-daughter has gone missing. Morales is assigned the lucrative if daunting task of finding her, given that all he has are her name, two photographs, and three days to carry out the search. But thanks to the intrepid Dona Sofia's ingenuity, and the watchful if ethereal presence of former partner Bert Dixon, along with a host of colorful if reluctant confederates enlisted from among Managua's demi-monde, Morales begins skillfully to expose and untangle a scandal of shocking proportions. The inspector's unexpected discoveries soon enough attract the personal attention and animosity of Nicaragua's director of national intelligence, whereupon the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Morales is presented with a painful dilemma. Suffused with Sergio Ramirez's mastery of complex narrative, ironic humor, and an ethos of human resilience, the second novel of his Managua Trilogy dramatizes the tragic venality and crazed lust for power that underlie the recent brutal history of Nicaragua.
| Author: Sergio Ramírez |
| Publisher: McPherson & Company |
| Publication Date: Nov 01, 2022 |
| Number of Pages: 288 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1620540509 |
| ISBN-13: 9781620540503 |
