The Ultimate Good Luck

In this novel of menace and eroticism Richard Ford updates the tradition ofConrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca Mexico whereHarry Quin... » 

In this novel of menace and eroticism Richard Ford updates the tradition ofConrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca Mexico whereHarry Quinn has come to free his girlfriends brother Sonny from Jail andideally to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspectsSonny of having cheated him. His prose has a taut cinematic quality thatbathes his story with the same hot mercilessly white light that scorchesMexico.New York Times Book Review «