This author knows what prose means. Sky one who can write. Unmistakably, intrinsically, no wrong word - and none too much. The story is also shocking and exciting, the characters are so real and yet so fascinating that it already dreading the first few pages, because I knew how much I would miss the book, the bitter end. Bitter, definitely, but without any sentimentality, a bit like Mexico itself. Dialogues are excellent, work on several levels. The descriptive passages are minimalist, but this slaying before truth and accuracy. Please read! Please read! In it Mr. Hawken will succeed, to conquer a large audience.