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- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a...
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
- Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s/50s
Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...
- Location(s): Mexico, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Salvatore “Sal” Paradise, and his new friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense for adventure, a free-spirited maverick eager to explore all kicks and an...
- Location(s): El Paso, Juarez
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
El Paso and Ciudad Juárez sit across the Texas / Mexico border from each other. They share streets, share industry, share crime. One gang claims territory in both: Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for most of...
- Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s / 2000s
One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...
The Consequences of Finding Daniel Morgan
- Location(s): Australia, Florida, Mexico
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
International Wildlife Expert, Phillip Royle, is recalled to Florida mid-flight to help find his missing former federal enforcement colleague, Daniel Morgan, soon finding Dan’s messy remains in a tiger pen. But what the hell was Dan doing there? With...
- Location(s): Juarez
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
For the setting of his first novel, Hawken, an American historian, has chosen Juarez, the border city in Mexico where hundreds, even thousands, of young women have been abducted and murdered in recent years. Most of them have been...
- Location(s): Tijuana, Jerusalem, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1973; 1982
Former Little League champion Kimitake “Clyde” Koba finds strength in the belief that he is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe as he struggles to escape the ghost of his brother and his alcoholic father. Born on Yom Kippur, teen...
- Location(s): Arizona, Mexico
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil’s Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds.
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 2020
The year is 2020. The Mexican President has provoked the United States by calling for the removal of US troops from Colombia and demanding higher prices for Mexico’s oil. But the country’s satellite communications system is controlled in Miami...
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