Best Novels Set In Mexico City - April 2024

The Deceivers (A John Wells Novel Book 12)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInterfering with the presidential election was just the first step.The Russians don't just want to influence American elections--they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling author Alex Berenson goes beyond today's headlines to tomorrow's all-too-real threats.It was supposed to be a terrorist sting. The guns were supposed to be disabled. Then why was there so much blood?The target was the American Airlines Center, the home of the Dallas Mavericks. The FBI had told Ahmed Shakir that his drug bus... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0722SLMRG
• ASIN: B0722SLMRG
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Ballistic (A Gray Man Novel Book 3)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney presents the third Gray Man novel, featuring the ex-CIA assassin being hailed as “Bourne for the new millennium” (James Rollins).After Court Gentry was betrayed by his compatriots and forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mission by the CIA, he thought he could find refuge living in the Amazon rain forest. But his bloody past finds him when a vengeful Russian crime lord forces him to go on the run once again. Court makes his way to one of the only men in the world he can trust—and arrives too late. His friend is dead and buried.Ye... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0052REQAG
• ASIN: B0052REQAG
• Brand: Berkley
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Motive (The Curtis Chronicles Book 1)

2016 Winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best Fiction Book of the Year.In “The Motive,” Joseph Badal presents the first book in his new series, The Curtis Chronicles. This latest addition to Badal’s offering of acclaimed, best-selling thrillers delivers the same sort of action and suspense that readers have come to expect and enjoy from his previous nine novels.Confronted with suspicious information relating to his sister Susan’s supposed suicide in Honolulu, Albuquerque surgeon Matt Curtis questions whether his sister really killed herself. With the help of his sister’s best frie... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01GQTS3LQ
• ASIN: B01GQTS3LQ
• Manufacturer: Suspense Publishing

The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir (The Wolfe Family Book 2)

A riveting crime thriller and an epic revenge tale ripped straight from the pages of today’s headlines.   Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja.   Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja’s organization. When their romance is disco... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00B6TZI2O
• ASIN: B00B6TZI2O
• Manufacturer: Mysterious Press

In the City of Crosses: A Dickie Floyd Detective Short Story

*** This Dickie Floyd Detective short story takes place chronologically between the Dickie Floyd Detective novels, A GOOD BUNCH OF MEN and DOOR TO A DARK ROOM. It is, however, a stand-alone short mystery crime detective story. ***Floyd's phone is found at the scene of a murder in New Mexico.Dickie is still off duty after being shot when two detectives knock on his door and begin asking questions. A man has been killed, and the detectives have homed in on Floyd. Dickie assures them there's been a big misunderstanding, but when Floyd is nowhere to be found, only more questions arise. A manhunt ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07L4Y6ZRG
• ASIN: B07L4Y6ZRG

The Cartel (Power of the Dog Series)

The New York Times bestselling second novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Book Two of the Power of the Dog Series It’s 2004. Adán Barrera, kingpin of El Federación, is languishing in a California federal prison. Ex-DEA agent Art Keller passes his days in a monastery, having lost everything to his thirty-year blood feud with the drug lord. Then Barrera escapes. Now, there’s a two-million-dollar bounty on Keller’s head and no one else capable of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525436510
• ASIN: 0525436510
• ISBN: 9780525436515
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

2666: A Novel

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008 San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 Seattle Times Best Books of 2008 New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312429215
• ASIN: 0312429215
• ISBN: 0312429215
• Brand: Picador USA
• Manufacturer: Picador

The Savage Detectives: A Novel

National BestsellerIn this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.

• ASIN: 0312427484
• ASIN: 0312427484
• ISBN: 0312427484
• Brand: Picador USA
• Manufacturer: Picador

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

"Succeeds as both a graphic primer and a philosophical meditation." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in World War Two. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project, and even transports the reader into a nuclear reaction―into the splitting atoms themselves. The power of the atom was harnessed in a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0809093553
• ASIN: 0809093553
• ISBN: 9780809093557
• Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

Len Deighton: Three Complete Novels- Berlin Game / Mexico Set / London Match

Compiles three bestselling novels from this king of suspense, London Match, Berlin Game, and Mexico Set, which all exemplify the author's typical themes of corruption, espionage, and double agents.

• ASIN: 0517092727
• ASIN: 0517092727
• ISBN: 0517092727
• Manufacturer: Wings Books

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Book 2)

• ASIN: 0679760849
• ASIN: 0679760849
• ISBN: 0679760849
• Brand: McCarthy, Cormac
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

“Should delight you whether you’re looking for smiles or thrills.”—The New York Times Book ReviewMrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown, married children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent.She takes on a “job” in Mexico City. The assignment doesn’t sound dangerous at first, but then, as often happens, something goes wrong. Now our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country’s enemies find th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0449208281
• ASIN: 0449208281
• ISBN: 0449208281
• Manufacturer: Fawcett

Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"

Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between periods of addiction and rehab, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a weak tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), amongst others. For this definitive ed... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802120423
• ASIN: 0802120423
• ISBN: 0802120423
• Brand: Brand: Grove Press
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel)

THE FIRST ANNA PIGEON NOVELThe fascinating hero of Nevada Barr’s award-winning series—park ranger Anna Pigeon—has brought an unyielding love of nature and sense of fair play to the mystery genre. Track of the Cat is the acclaimed novel that first introduced readers to Anna, as a woman looking for peace in the wilderness—and finding murder instead…   Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna’s first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain li... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425190838
• ASIN: 0425190838
• ISBN: 0425190838
• Brand: Barr, Nevada
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Comanche Moon : A Novel

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life -- Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with the Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican ban... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0684857553
• ASIN: 0684857553
• ISBN: 0684857553
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The City of Ember Complete Boxed Set

With more than 3.5 million copies sold, the City of Ember books are modern-day classics. Lina and Doon's heart-pounding journey to save their people has captivated readers around the world, and the four adventures are

• UPC: 49012761
• Rating: 5.0

City of Girls : A Novel

9781594634734

• UPC: 810399216

Frankenstein: City of Night : A Novel

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery,

• UPC: 11023192
• Rating: 4.095

City of Thieves : A Novel

Benioff follows up "The 25th Hour" with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in

• UPC: 10180562
• Rating: 4.305

Mexico : A Novel

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as

• UPC: 42082472
• Rating: 4.4

The City (with bonus short story The Neighbor) : A Novel

A gifted musician relates the events of 1967 that impacted his family and friends, from his indomitable "piano man" grandfather and struggling singer single mother to the everyday saints and sinners who shaped his

• UPC: 42486587
• Rating: 3.5

City of Girls : A Novel

9780593104361

• UPC: 576351684

The Underdogs : A Novel of the Mexican Revolution

Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief

• UPC: 29328071
• Rating: 3.444

Top 10 Mexico City

Folded col. map in pocket on p. [3] of

• UPC: 16789270

The Underdogs : A Novel of the Mexican Revolution

The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macias, a

• UPC: 8221046
• Rating: 3.444