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In this 10th novel from author Diamela Eltit, the protagonist is a young woman from a marginal neighborhood who works as a prostitute in a cyber cafe, her life at the height of tragedy and misfortune. The setting is a section of town surrounded by police special forces. But in a sad yet defiant play on words, the special forces of the title also refer to the will required to resist, to survive on the edge of society under such forms of repression and oppression. Violence and the scars left on bodies both physical and social appear in many of Eltit's novels, carefully constructed with uneasy...

En esta obra se entrecruzan dos relatos de corrupcion: un cargamento de oro del Tercer Reich, contrabandeado de Argentina a la ciudad de Mexico en ruta hacia Estados Unidos, y el puerto de Acapulco como punto de transito, almacenamiento y embarque de las drogas mas cotizadas en el enorme mercado norteamericano.

Mediodía: la hora del duelo; si hay algo más caliente que el sol, es el espíritu de los combatientes. Determinada, la Bandolera mira a su oponente sin saber que el resultado de esa pelea ya había sido elegido por él y, antes de poder dispararle al Maldito, sintió que su cuerpo era succionado, y se cayó junto a una vía de ferrocarril en un mundo que no era el suyo. En esta fantástica aventura, la primera dama del neo noir Fernanda W. Borges y la diva de las novelas paranormales B. Pellizzer presentan personajes únicos y una trama que hace que el lector —literariamente— se sumerja ...

It begins with a letter . . . The letter contains a request � think of a number, any number � and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is that number. When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he�s been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally killed. Suddenly Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes no sense. The killer seems to have known his victim intimately. How else was he able to predict his...