Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power

This is not a political novel, although its roots lie in the student massacre in Mexico City in 1968. The story takes place in 1970 and concentrates on the seemingly unrelated wound of Nestor, a newspaper reporter and former partisan, who has been knifed by a killer of prostitutes. The novel speaks to all those who have pitted their lives against the superior force of the state and lost. Winner of the Grijalbo Prize.Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II is the author of 'Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power' with ISBN 9780917635090 and ISBN 0917635094.