![]() ![]() ![]() References to “Dallas” abound when Garcia discovers that the American president is once again in danger of being assassinated, and the responsible party could be any one of the many spies who turn up in the criminal underworld of Mexico City. In Bernal’s novel, governments, Western or otherwise, are malevolent entities that always have ulterior motives. Kennedy, The Mongolian Conspiracy is very much a product of its time, brimming with paranoia and cloak-and-dagger intrigue. Published just six years after the assassination of John F. A chance assignment lands him in the middle of an international conspiracy that gives Bernal’s book its name. Filiberto Garcia is a hitman who knows exactly what gun to use for killing at short range, but not much beyond that. Thanks to translator Katherine Silver, his 1969 masterpiece El Complot Mongol, or The Mongolian Conspiracy, is available for the first time in English. Rafael Bernal was a legend of Mexican crime fiction, but he never achieved international renown. ![]()
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