Servando is the chief of chiefs. Ariel is the one who fended off two
hundred hitmen. The Mier are legendary in their midst, inseparable from
the history of a sick land. In this crime novel, Dante Mier returns to
San Juan Betulia after going into exile in France because the only way
to protect someone is help them disappear. Set in a geography similar to
Mexico, where social terror is intertwined with the primal and
supernatural, Jaime Mesa presents a fundamental novel about the violence
that besets us and about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of
it.