Books of The Times: Noir in Sunny Mexico, Martín Solares’s ‘Black Minutes’
Martín Solares’s first novel, “The Black Minutes,” offers two memorable Mexican variants on the hard-boiled operative struggling to maintain his integrity in a moral cesspool.
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Tuesday, 1 June, 2010
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