The Dead Women of Juárez
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Publisher Description
Since 1993 over 500 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez.
Residents believe the true number of disappeared stands at 5,000.
When a new disappearance is reported, Kelly Courter, a washed-up Texan boxer, and Rafael Sevilla, a Mexican detective, are sucked into an underworld of organised crime, believing they can outwit the corruption all around. The Dead Women of Juárez follows these two men obsessed with seeking the truth about the female victims of the Mexican border wars.
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Hawken's debut novel ambitiously confronts a real-life scandal, the many, mostly unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Ju rez since the early 1990s, previously tackled by Roberto Bola o's sprawling 2666. The two heroes, down-and-out American boxer Kelly Courter and Mexican police detective Rafael Sevilla, dig into the drug-related violence in the Mexican border city, crimes that in recent years have overshadowed the so-called feminicidios. On occasion, Rafael presses Kelly, who just wants to eke out a humble existence in Ciudad Ju rez, about his friend Est ban, a smalltime drug dealer. Worse trouble lies ahead because of the role of Paloma, Kelly's girlfriend and Est ban's sister, in the victim-advocacy group Mujeres Sin Voces. After a low-key opening section that sketches Ciudad Ju rez's bleak industrial landscape, the book roars into gear as a bluntly forceful hard-boiled thriller that also manages to address, movingly and respectfully, its troubling subject matter.
