Praise for Martín Solares and The Black Minutes

“Stunning. His characters simultaneously move toward resolution and the void, each success paradoxically dragging them down.”

—Nation

“Solares’s prose—alternately playful, poetic, and plainspoken—propels the pages.”

—Booklist

“Martín Solares uses the codes and formula of classic crime novels to create a universe where the reader is permanently on a fluctuating border between dream and reality, between fiction and the authentic violence of facts.”

—Le Monde (France)

“[Martín Solares’s] debut novel is risky business … One of the most ambitious crime novels that Mexico has had to offer since the great works of Paco Ignacio Taibo II.”

—Titel Magazin (Germany)

“This first novel by Solares will satisfy—to an immense degree, believe me—those who enjoy impossible missions and quixotic adventures.”

—El País (Spain)

“Solares displays an impressive string of situations, and constructs an action-packed plot that never declines … A true novelist.”

—El Mundo (Spain)