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Título: La Octava plaga [The Eighth Plague]

Autor: Bernardo Esquinca

Narrador: Edson Matus

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-04-17

Editor: Audible Studios

Categorías: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Resumen del editor:

Todo comienza la mañana en que Casasola, periodista de nota roja, encuentra el cadáver de un hombre degollado por una prostituta, amarrado a la cama de un motel. El reportero se ve involucrado en el misterioso caso de una asesina, que mata a sus clientes durante el acto sexual, y es capaz de imitar las voces que están dentro de la cabeza de sus víctimas. Siguiendo la pista de "la asesina de los moteles" Casasola y el Griego, un veterano fotógrafo, descubrirán, con asombro, que no es un simple caso para la prensa amarillista.

Están ante algo mucho más complejo: las personas actúan de manera extraña, como es el caso de Olga, la ex mujer de Casasola, que no deja de buscar la luz de las bombillas, o de Taboada, un científico recluido en un hospital psiquiátrico, al que le gusta comer libros viejos. ¿Será que los seres humanos se están empezando a comportar como insectos?

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

A diamond in the rough

Zambrano, Guillermo. Pasaporte al infierno (Mexico City: Ediciones B, 2011). This novel, written in Spanish by a Mexican journalist-turned-fiction-writer now living in Miami according to Wikipedia, is not the authorâs first fictional attempt (I have not yet read his other works). Pasaporte strikes me as a diamond in the rough which also means that the editors at Ediciones B could have leaned on Zambrano even more so and they could have done some more work on the book title too.

The protagonist in this story is a private investigator named Constitucion (the name sounds better and is more plausible in Spanish than in English) who, Rambo-like, wishes to clear the world of the bad guys especially drug traffickers. For Rambo, or his counterpart, Dirty Harry Callahan, it doesn't matter if homicide is the way to cleanse our social order. This is what Pasaporte is all about and it takes place in Mexico City.

I was hoping Pasaporte would stand up as a fictional story framed around Mexico City culture especially drug trafficking culture but it didnât. It read more like a conventional detective thriller. Zambrano does in fact review Mexicoâs drug trafficking history including some unique information about key drug lords but he does so via some long-winded, stilted conversations between Constitucion and one of his close associates but nothing new, really. The author also transcribes overly long news reports word for word purportedly aimed at informing the reader about Mexicoâs nightmarish drug trafficking episodes, an unfortunate approach that I hope he omits in his newer work.