Élmer Mendoza is a literature professor and crime novelist, a formative figure in the genre known as "narco-literature," or narco-lit. Also a dramatist and short story writer, he is best known for his series of detective novels starring detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta. The first Lefty Mendieta novel was A Lone Murderer, which immediately garnered praise for its realistic portrayal of Mexico's flourishing narco culture and the ways in which it has shaped Mexican law enforcement and politics. Mendoza has won several literature awards, including the José Fuentes Mares National Literary Prize, for Janis Joplin's Lover, and the prestigious Tusquets Prize, for Silver Bullets. Mendoza lives and writes in Culiacán, Mexico.
""Mendoza has transformed the corruption, chaos, and constant
bloodletting of Mexico's disastrous War on Drugs into blackly comic
fiction . . . The battle between the cartels is not so much
Mendoza's subject matter as the medium in which the events he
describes take place. The novels' very construction suggests that
in this world some lives matter a lot more than others, and that
some deaths are not worth investigating because it's obvious who
did it . . . Murder is a part of everyday life."--London Review of
Books
"a skillfully written novel"--The Crime Scene
"Casts a wide net over modern Mexican life and an array of
well-drawn characters, some powerful, some weak, some depraved . .
. Mendoza's creation is nothing like standard pulp
fiction."--Justin Warshaw, Times Literary Supplement
"If you are fed up with formulaic noir novels and looking for
something fresher, Elmer Mendoza's dazzling Silver Bullets could be
the answer."--John Dugdale, Sunday Times
"Presents Mexico in a darkly surrealist light: corrupt politicos, a
plague of narco-crime and only battered detective Edgar "Lefty"
Mendieta on the side of the angels."--Barry Forshaw,
Independent
"The literary representative of modern-day Mexico in its
narco-incarnation . . . The most important thing that's happened in
Mexican literature in the last thirty years."
--Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph
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