ARGONAUT BOOKS

Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Reviews Vibrant and contemporary . . . Adrian Nathan West has done a spectacular job, delivering a novel whose sentences sing on the page, and whose complex chronology never threat...Read More