![]() Agent: Eddie Schneider, JABberwocky Literary. This is a rich novel with an engrossing plot, distinctive characters, and a pleasing touch of romance. As the two get closer to discovering the reason behind Leonora’s disappearance, they uncover secrets that shadowy forces, both domestic and foreign, will kill to protect. When Elvis’s boss assigns him to track down Leonora, his search crosses that of Maite, with whom he becomes fascinated. ![]() Meanwhile, 21-year-old Elvis, muscle for a clandestine, government-funded shock troop employed to suppress student protests, longs for something more and wishes to escape his old life. When her beautiful art student neighbor, Leonora, disappears, Maite, with the help of Rubén, Leonora’s former lover, begins a search that takes her into the world of student radicals. Maite, a 30-year-old secretary in Mexico City who feels life has passed her by, escapes from routine by reading the magazine Secret Romance, oblivious to the political upheaval around her. ![]() The characters, an idealistic youth drawn into the world of gang brutality, and an insecure secretary. This seductive neo-noir thriller from bestseller Moreno-Garcia ( Mexican Gothic) draws on the real-life efforts of the Mexican government to suppress political dissent in the 1970s. The historical setting for Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s noir novel, Velvet Was the Night, is the violent suppression of a student uprising in Mexico City in the late 1960s, and that part was fascinating. ![]()
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