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Frontera Dreams (Hector Belascoaran Shayne #5)
The sweetheart of Héctor Balascorán Shayne’s adolescence-the same one who has become a famous Mexican movie star-has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico Border. Her daughter hires the detective to find her and bring her home. He wanders la frontera, traveling the empty roads between Tijuana and Mexicali and Juárez. Between nostalgia and reality. He fall...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
May 1st 2002
by Cinco Puntos Press
(first published 1990)
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Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back, but it’s not the same girl. In this mystery classic “Frontera Dreams,” written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (a.k.a. PIT II) and translated into English by Bill Verner, we follow a scarred and wounded detective from Mexico City as he searches for his teenage love turned Mexican movie star. He learns that her life is in danger sending her fleeing across the border and then back into Mexico. Along the way, Detective Hector interacts with interesting ch...more
Mar 11, 2010
Joan
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I am so glad I picked up this book! This is actually the seventh book in the series, the fifth that's been translated into English, but there's a hugely informative essay at the beginning that fills the reader in on what went before. You need to know that Héctor has a body "impervious to wounds", that he was killed and resurrected.
When Héctor was a teenager, he had a sweetheart. Now she's a famous movie star, except that she's disappeared, and his daughter comes asking him to find her. This is a...more
When Héctor was a teenager, he had a sweetheart. Now she's a famous movie star, except that she's disappeared, and his daughter comes asking him to find her. This is a...more
Not so much a mystery as a depiction of the border towns and corruption.
Feb 28, 2008
Rochelle
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommended to Rochelle by:
my son, who read it on the plane coming to Mexico
I'm a Paco Taibo fan. When I have been in Mexico City I've even sought out places in his novels, but this is my least favorite of his books. It's too sketchy, reads as if he wrote it to a deadline, with little of the detail and wit that keeps me entranced with his other novels featuring H. Belascoaran Shayne and his officemates.
Aug 13, 2007
liliana vega
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Esta serie de libros es mi favorita. Aún no la completo, si alguien ve un libro, por favor, lo necesito leer.
exciting radical adventure/thriller!
May 06, 2013
Joseph Muniz
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3 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
mexican-writers,
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Andrea Marín serrano
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II, birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo, is a popular Mexican writer and novelist. He is the son of the late journalist Paco Ignacio Taibo I.
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