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  <default_description>In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico.&quot;--&lt;i&gt;New York Times Book Review&lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book excelled in setting but lacked narrative direction.  Similarly, the characters were masterfully sketched and yet seemed unconvinced of their own motives.  Perhaps in either case this was the intent; nevertheless both these criticisms seem too closely related to create the necessary tension...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65805754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is set in Oaxaca and is about Coke dealing in the 80s.]]></body>
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