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A review by tommooney
Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann
4.0
This was excellent. A thoroughly enjoyable literary crime novel.
An Irish journalist in Mexico City gets drawn into the brutal world of drugs, oil and corruption after his boyfriend is murdered for turning over one stone too many.
There are echos of many great novelists in this very fine debut. Just a few who came to mind while reading were Don Winslow, Lawrence Osborne, Charles Portis and even, at times, Roberto Bolano.
MacGabhann writes with clear insight both into the workings of Mexican power structures and the complicated role of foreign journalists - he is himself a journalist working in the area. The prose snaps, the story goes along at a fair clip and there's a trippy, contemporary feel about the whole thing.
Really high quality novel. I'll definitely be looking out for more of his work in the future.
An Irish journalist in Mexico City gets drawn into the brutal world of drugs, oil and corruption after his boyfriend is murdered for turning over one stone too many.
There are echos of many great novelists in this very fine debut. Just a few who came to mind while reading were Don Winslow, Lawrence Osborne, Charles Portis and even, at times, Roberto Bolano.
MacGabhann writes with clear insight both into the workings of Mexican power structures and the complicated role of foreign journalists - he is himself a journalist working in the area. The prose snaps, the story goes along at a fair clip and there's a trippy, contemporary feel about the whole thing.
Really high quality novel. I'll definitely be looking out for more of his work in the future.