＊ 本书是墨西哥犯罪小说的经典代表作，它的出版创造了墨西哥犯罪小说这个书类！
＊ 这本扣人心弦又爆笑的文学大作原本在1969年墨西哥出版，去年底终于出版英语版本，结果大受好评。目前有英语全书稿！
＊ 作者Rafael Bernal是1960年代最伟大的侦探小说家之一，但是网络上很难搜查出太多关于他的英语资料。除了《蒙古阴谋论》，他没有其他作品翻译成任何语言。今天，这本经典书的原文实体书几乎找不到了，幸好去年年底终于出了英语版本。
“THE BEST FUCKING NOVEL EVER WRITTEN ABOUT MEXICO CITY” ——《念及她名》(Say Her Name) 作者Francisco Goldman
本书透过黑色幽默以及暴力叙述了一个非正统派男主角如何揭开一个国际阴谋论。Filiberto Garcia是一位前任职业杀手，他必须在FBI以及KGB之间斡旋，拆除在墨西哥城的中国城潜在的阴谋，正在威胁世界和平。
在美国总统拜访墨西哥的前几天，FIliberto Garcia，一位帅气的专业刽子手、前墨西哥革命者以及经典的非正统派主角，被墨西哥警察请去调查FBI以及KGB双方提供的消息：有个中国－蒙古阴谋要暗杀苏联以及美国的总统。Garcia一路上寻找线索，除去坏人，整个阴谋围绕在墨西哥城的中国城里的烟馆、古玩店、港式茶餐厅里。所有的线索不是指向蒙古，而是古巴。但是，他越调查越发现背后的政治牵连。这是一本经典的“黑色”小说，关于了人生的意义、墨西哥革命、女人以及枪战。
书中的男主角Filiberto Garcia是一位“国际神秘人”：谈吐中充满讽刺、喜欢向长官顶嘴、受雇杀手、说话前不会先透过大脑过滤。 故事里牵涉的墨西哥政府的腐败到至今还是一个巨大的问题。
作者的女儿在书中的后序讨论了父亲这些精彩的故事来自于哪里：
"My dad spent a lot of time in the jungles of Quintana Roo and Chiapas and met many guns for hire who, after a few tequilas, were more than happy to tell him all their stories. A lot of Filiberto's stories come from them."
关于作者：
墨西哥小说家Rafael Bernal (1915-1972)是一位“文艺复兴男人”(renaissange man):他从瑞士的University of Fribourg获得文学博士学位，另外也曾在加拿大蒙特利尔的Loyola大学以及他的老乡墨西哥城的大学读书。他是一位成功的小说家以及电视、电台以及电影记者，之后更成为一位墨西哥外交官。今天，他被认为是20实际最伟大的犯罪小说家。《蒙古阴谋论》被认为是他的代表作。
书评：
“Filiberto Garcia learned his trade (killing people) as a teenager in the Mexican Revolution. Now (sometime after the Kennedy assassination), he’s 60 and still killing people —for the Mexico City police. It seems the Russians have warned the US of an assassination plot against the US president on a visit to Mexico City. The Russians say the plot was hatched in China. Filiberto is assigned to work with Russian and American spooks to stop it. While the Cold War adversaries warily measure each other, Filiberto begins to rattle cages in Chinatown, even as he pursues Marta, a beautiful young Chinese woman. His cage rattling immediately produces stiffs. His efforts to bed Marta turn unexpectedly, uncharacteristically, and humorously chivalrous. Bernal published this noir in Mexico in 1969, presaging Paco Ignacio Taibo’s Héctor Belascoarán Shayne and Ken Bruen’s tormented ex-Garda, Jack Taylor. The usually dyspeptic Filiberto narrates, and his angry screeds about, well, almost everything recall Taylor’s anguished and funny rants. His ideas also reflect Shayne’s indictments of Mexican government corruption and repression. International-crime fans will enjoy this one”
Booklist
“As in the pulp novels of yesteryear, through sparse narrative details and fast-paced dialogue, Filisberto endears himself to the reader as that street-hardened detective who can just never shake his sense of justice. In the tradition of the classic detective novel, a fun and action-filled read”
Kirkus Reviews
“The Mongolian Conspiracy is 60s noir to the core”
Word Bookstores
“Rafael Bernal’s The Mongolian Conspiracy is a masterful work of hilarity and noir”
NPR
“Bernal’s evocation of Mexico City during one its most turbulent hours is wonderfully evocative”
Boston Globe
- 蒙古阴谋论
- THE MONGOLIAN CONSPIRACY
- 作者：Rafael Bernal
- 出版社代理人：New Directions（美国）（原出版社：Planeta Mexico ）
- 出版时间：2013年11月（墨西哥版出版日期：1969年 ）
- 页数：192页
- 已售版权：西班牙、世界英语、意大利
- 版权联系人：tina@peonyliteraryagency.com
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