Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The Hydra Head


Fuentes, Carlos, The Hydra Head, United States: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Inc., 1978.

Reviewed in Kirkus, and the New York Times.

See also the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Christian Science Monitor.

From Google Books:
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, … has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the diversity of one man's experience.

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