Mexican novelist and historian Paco Ignacio Taibo II here captures the life and character of Che Guevara, the preeminent Latin-American revolutionary of the late twentieth century. The symbol of radical egalitarianism and the war against social injustice, Guevara was gunned down in the jungles of southeastern Bolivia in 1967, his death surrounded by questions that remain unanswered. In the years since he died, fascination with Che and his independent and pragmatic brand of Guerilla Marxism have become increasingly focused. Taibo, whose extensive contacts in Latin American political activism gives him unprecedented access to hitherto untapped sources, probes Che's life with a storyteller's pen and an historian's judgment. Delving into vast archives to which few researchers have entry, Taibo investigates the mystery and myth surrounding Che's life, careers, and ideals.

Guevara Also Known As Che

Biographies & Memoirs

Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II

Leaders & Notable People

St Martins Pr

No Happy Ending

Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye He+a7ctor Belascoara+a7n Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Mysterious Pr

A Mexican crime novelist, Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro decides to become the police chief of Santa Anna and fights gunslingers, traitors, lunatics, and visionaries to find the murderer of an American photographer. Reprint.

Life Itself

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Leonardo's Bicycle

In a study of the effects of a century of violence on the nature of imagination, revolutionaries, radicals, criminals, and dreamers chase a wild goose into a hail of gunfire, while Leonardo da Vinci hovers overhead on a bicycle that will not be invented for hundred of years. Reprint.

A private eye who shares his office with a plumber, an upholsterer, and a sewer engineer, Hector Belascoaran Shayne is a one-eyed anarchist, a man who knows intimately the teeming landscape of modern-day Mexico City - land of pressing poverty, absurdist street theatre, and tragic class warfare. For Shayne, it is a world that can draw tears one moment and blood the next - as it does on the hot afternoon when he finds the dead Roman in his office. A threatening letter and a Polaroid snapshot of another corpse let Hector know that he has been targeted for intimidation. Tracing the identities of the two dead men, he finds out what they had in common: a connection to a dead daredevil named Zorak, whose sinister sideline was training a now-disbanded paramilitary group used to put down political demonstrations. Like Hammett's classic Red Harvest, No Happy Ending is riddled with violent death. Like the works of Marquez, it dances on the bitter edge of reality. Literary and invective, No Happy Ending is the greatest work of an author taking crime fiction into extraordinary new ground.

The first English language edition of the work that received the Latin American Hammett Award for Crime Fiction features author Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro, who finds himself in the unlikely position of police chief when his two predecessors are murdered.

One of Latin America's most celebrated authors continues the dark political fantasy begun in Life Itself, featuring Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro, the leader of a group of revolutionaries, criminals, and dreamers.

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Humor

Dias De Combate: Escrito Por Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Listen to Them) (Spanish Edition)

Shayne, Na Historia De Belascoardn

Armendariz, Leido Por Pedro

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Audiolibros Del Mundo Inc

El cura Hidalgo y sus amigos (Spanish Edition)

Planeta Publishing

"En este país hay muchos hijos de la chingada y los peores son los seis generales que dieron el golpe contra Madero" 
La tensión estaba en el aire. La ciudad de México era un hervidero reaccionario y porfirista donde los generales que juraban fidelidad al presidente Madero conspiraban por las noches para dar un golpe de Estado. 
¿Pero qué ocurrió exactamente durante aquellos días de febrero de 1913? 
Paco Ignacio Taibo II hace una reconstrucción minuciosa de la confabulación: su gestación en octubre de 1912 en La Habana, un corrupto embajador norteamericano presionando para que el levantamiento se lleve a cabo, las calles del centro tomadas por el ejército la traición se respiraba por toda la ciudad. Pero el presidente no quería verlo. Gustavo, su hermano, se lo decía: "Nos van a matar a todos". 
Y así sería. 
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 
"In this country, there are many sons of bitches, and the worst are the six generals who staged the coup against Madero." 
Tension was in the air. Mexico City was a hotbed of reactionary and Porfirian sentiment where generals who swore loyalty to President Madero conspired at night to stage a coup d'état. 
But what exactly happened during those days in February 1913? 
Paco Ignacio Taibo II meticulously reconstructs the conspiracy: its inception in October 1912 in Havana, a corrupt American ambassador pressuring for the uprising to take place, the downtown streets taken over by the army, and betrayal was felt throughout the city. But the president did not want to see it. Gustavo, his brother, told him: "They are going to kill us all." 
And so it would be.

Temporada de zopilotes (Biografías y Memorias) (Spanish Edition)

Historical

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Guevara Also Known As Che

No Happy Ending

Life Itself

Leonardo's Bicycle

No Happy Ending

Life Itself

Leonardo's Bicycle

Dias De Combate: Escrito Por Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Listen to Them) (Spanish Edition)

El cura Hidalgo y sus amigos (Spanish Edition)

Temporada de zopilotes (Biografías y Memorias) (Spanish Edition)