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Élmer Mendoza

2 ideas

1. The silver bullet killing of Bruno Canizales

   In Culiacán, Bruno Canizales, a lawyer and the son of a powerful former federal official, is found shot dead with a bullet made of silver. Detective Edgar 'El Zurdo' (Lefty) Mendieta follows the case through the city's political and sexual underworld and into the orbit of the Valdés cartel family. Along the way it becomes clear that what counts as the case's resolution depends on who holds power, not on what the evidence shows.

2. Silver bullet read as narco ostentation

   The investigators take the silver bullet as a possible sign of wealth and narco ostentation, a clue that might point to the killer's class and milieu. The book presents this as their working hypothesis about the murder, not as the established explanation.

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