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�A dry, sharp x-ray of the horror of life in the Gulf, the network of complicity, the scope of tragedy. A gritty, direct, exciting novel that is a must-read for anyone who wants to look at the hell that the Gulf (and Mexico at the same time) has become.��Antonio Ortu�o From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot D�az as �Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,� Don�t Send Flowers is a riveting novel centered on Carlos Trevi�o, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and widespread violence that caused him to leave the force, when he�s hired by a wealthy businessman to find his missing daughter. A seventeen-year-old girl has disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend that was interrupted by armed men, leaving the boyfriend on life support and the girl an apparent kidnap victim. It�s a common occurrence in the region�prime narco territory�but the girl�s parents are rich and powerful, and determined to find their daughter at any cost. When they call upon Carlos Trevi�o, he tracks the missing heiress north to the town of La Eternidad, on the Gulf of Mexico not far from the U.S. border�all while constantly attempting to evade detection by La Eternidad�s chief of police, Commander Margarito Gonzalez, who is in the pockets of the cartels and has a score to settle with Trevi�o. A gritty tale of murder and kidnapping, crooked cops and violent gang disputes, Don�t Send Flowers is an engrossing portrait of contemporary Mexico from one of its most original voices.