Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord

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‘Sharp, funny, engaging’ Financial Times Discover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernières’ satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy.Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the bodies that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio’s letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realises that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge.

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Weight 0.213 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

304

Publisher

Year Published

1992-8-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0749399627

About The Author

Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter, a collection of stories, Notwithstanding, and a collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria.

Sharp, funny, engaging…de Bernieres is doing for Colombia's drug culture what Tom Sharpe did for apartheid. His approach is flippant, but the purpose behind it is deadly serious

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Vibrant, lucid, charged with wild jokes and harrowing scenes smelted with torture…a book which shudders with memorability…satirical and splendid

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