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2005: Welcome to the drug ridden city of Culiacán. Where silver bullets rule
Silver Bullets
What you need to know before your trail
In the hot and humid city of Culiacán, Mexico’s drug ridden capital of crime and drugs, life is never easy.
A lawyer Bruno Canizales has just been murdered and for Detective Edgar Lefty Mendieta, the search is on to find the culprit.
However in a city where it’s hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians, any investigation is like finding a needle in a haystack. And Canizales had more reason to hide than many – as well as being the son of a former government minister and the partner of a drug baron’s daughter, he had his own penchant for cross-dressing and dangerous sex.
Important enough for someone to shoot with a silver bullet. And he won’t be the first.
Travel Guide
The translator of the novel introduces the place well:
“This novel takes place in a prosperous and sweltering Mexican city of just under a million people, half an hour’s drive from the Pacific and nine hundred kilometres south of the US border. Culiacán the Sinaloas state capital lies far off the tourist track, surrounded by desert and lush irrigated field, Its elite still thrives on commercial agriculture, but in recent decade the trafficking of marijuana , cocaine an heroin has far outdistanced the sale of cucumbers and chilli peppers, By 2005, when the story takes place, Culiacán has become one of he country’s more violent cities, its political and economic landscapes transformed by the huge fortunes made and lost under hails of bullets.”
Streetview Maps
A) Av. Álvaro Obregón
C) Courthouse
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Silver Bullets
Destination: Culiacán Departure Time: 2005
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