Title: The Shadow of the Shadow - Paco Ignacio Taibo II - book
Summary :
Mexico 1922. A journalist specializing in crime, a lawyer whose best clients are prostitutes, a poet-virtuoso in the art of advertising slogans, and a Chinese anarchist and trade unionist meet in the evening at the bar of the Majestic Hotel to play dominoes. The assassination of a trombone player, the defenestration of an army colonel, nighttime shootings, poisoned chocolates, and a beautiful and mysterious young woman will lead the four friends far from their beloved dominoes, into the middle of a plot that unites treacherous colonels, American senators, and a few oil companies. Conspiracies are a shadow—without a profile, without clear objectives. And we, who pursue them in fits and starts, like children running blindly
