Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Paperback/Louis De Bernieres

Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992. About the Author: Louis de Berni res is the author of, among other novels, The Dust That Falls From Dreams , A Partisan's Daughter , Birds Without Wings , Corelli's Mandolin , The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman , Se or Vivo and the Coca Lord , and The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts . Selected by Granta as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists in 1993, de Berni res lives in London.