Un Asesino Solitario / A Lone Assassin

Jorge Mac燰s es un pistolero al servicio del gobierno. Lo apodan el Europeo por el escrulo con que asume su trabajo: eliminar a los enemigos del sistema. A finales del sexenio, sin embargo, se queda sin trabajo ya que el presidente ha decidido pasar el tiempo que le resta inaugurando obras sin terminar y cosechando aplausos. Alejado del poder, Mac燰s se siente extraviado. Por ello, cuando lo llaman para una misi鏮 especial, acepta a pesar de la enorme dificultad del encargo: asesinar al candidato presidencial del partido oficial. Conforme se interna en un territorio que se disputan narcotraficantes y polic燰s judiciales, descubrir?que diversas conspiraciones pueden coincidir ferozmente en un solo hombre.

Un asesino solitario es la asombrosa primera novela de 匜mer Mendoza. Desde su aparici鏮 en 1999, esta novela situ?a su autor en el escenario principal de la literatura mexicana, convirti幯dolo, como apunta Arturo P廨ez-Reverte, en «el patriarca de la literatura norte鎙 .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"With my power and license to do damage restored, I couldn't have been happier."

Jorge Mac燰s is a government hitman, nicknamed the European for the fastidiousness he employs in his mission: eliminating enemies of the system. As the end of the administration approaches, however, he finds himself out of a job, with the outgoing president dedicating the time he has left in office to inaugurating new works and reveling in public adulation. Expelled from the inner circle of power, Mac燰s feels lost. When he's called back for a special mission, he eagerly accepts, despite the enormity of the task: assassinating the ruling party's presidential candidate. As he ventures into territory disputed by drug cartels and the federal police, Mac燰s discovers that all the conspiracies he is following lead back to a single man.

First published in 1999, A Lone Assassin marked 匜mer Mendoza's first foray into fiction, elevating him to the ranks of Mexico's leading authors and earning him the title of, in the words of Arturo P廨ez-Reverte, "the father of Norte隳 literature."