Translation Rights TQE / Dog's Name

The detective Edgar “el Zurdo” Mendieta becomes submerged once again in the world of narcos to help no other than Samantha Valdés, the boss of the Cártel del Pacífico. Valdés has received a terrible blow: during a meeting with the other narco bosses to reach a truce that would play along with the Government, Mariana, her lover, has been murdered, and she wants vengeance. Mendieta agrees to help her without imagining the tangle of suspects that will lead him to levels of power which he could not have even dreamed of. Meanwhile, he will find the time to investigate the murder of a dentist, to face an accusation for torture, to manage living with Jason, the son whom he has just come to know, and to meet up again with Jason’s mother, Susana Luján, who has been followed from Los Angeles by a marine that tries to woo her and with whom el Zurdo will settle the score. With the help of Gris Toledo, his loyal and sharp partner, el Zurdo must infiltrate himself in the deepest and darkest of trenches in the “war against narco”, its leading figures, its betrayals and pacts.

After Balas de plata (Silver Bullets) and La prueba del ácido (The Acid Test), Nombre de perro continues the saga of Detective Edgar “el Zurdo” Mendieta, with which Élmer Mendoza portrays a time and a country with the help of this unique detective who has become internationally known.

Élmer Mendoza was born in Culiacán (México) in 1949. He is a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. He coordinates seven groups of starting novelists throughout Mexico. From 1978 to 1995, he published five volumes of short stories and two of chronicles, and in 1999, his first novel, Un asesino solitario (A Lonely Killer), which immediately situated him, according to the Mexican literary critic Federico Campbell, as “the first narrator who manages a true account of the effects of drug trafficking in our country”. El amante de Janis Joplin (The Lover of Janis Joplin) was awarded the XVII José Fuentes Mares National Literary Prize and Efecto Tequila (Tequila Effect) was a finalist, in 2005, to the Dashiell Hammett Prize. In 2006, his fourth novel, Cóbraselo caro (Make It Expensive) was published. Arturo Pérez-Reverte has said about Mendoza, “He is my friend and my teacher. The Queen of the South was born from the taverns, the narcocorrido music and his novels.”