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Poso Wells / Gabriela Alemán ; translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster.

by Alemán Salvador, María Gabriela, 1968-

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City Lights Books, 2018.

Presidential candidates -- Death -- Fiction.

Disappeared persons -- Fiction.

Journalists -- Fiction.

Ecuador -- Politics and government -- Fiction.

9780872867550 (trade pbk)

Poso Wells. English

157 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the Spanish.

"In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor -- next in line for the presidency -- inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail, which leads him into a violent, lawless underworld. Bella Altamirano, a fearless local, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement's code of silence, ignoring repeated death threats. It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected, and not just to a local crime wave, but to a multinational magnate's plan to plunder the country's cloud forest preserve."--Publisher.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

Suspense fiction.

Political thriller.

Literary fiction.

Cluster, Dick, 1947-

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