- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin USA (P); Reprint edition (April 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140174192
- ISBN-13: 978-0140174199
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,680,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ramon Valdez is a Cuban-American marielito guilty of mass murder when a jewellery store robbery ends in massacre. The unenviable job of defending him falls to Charlie Morrell, himself a Cuban exile. For Ramon, a high priest in the Afro-Cuban santeria religion, his defence is obvious - the god Ogg?n made him do it and he is a saint. To substantiate his client's defence, Charlie is forced to uncover a world of horrific violence, racist justice and fanatical practices. Many thrillers feature Los Angeles - in The Killing of Saints, it is, for the first time, the city of the angels.
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Alex Abella was born in Havana but moved to the United States when he was ten years old. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter. The Killing of the Saints is his first book.
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A pulse-pounding thriller about Santeria..
7 Oct 2004
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Alex Abella pulled off an impressive trick with his first novel "Killing of the Saints". He manages to write both a good courtroom thriller in the style of John Grisham, and a interesting ethnic novel that makes us question our narrow views on Hispanics, and Cubans in particular. Abella has certainly taught me that here. In this rich, and delightly noir novel, Charlie Morrel is a disgraced former lawyer who ran away to Los Angeles to escape his past, abandoning a wife and child in Miami where he almost was disbarred. Charlie then finds himself drawn into a complex legal case involving two known killers who may not have been responsible for the carnage they inflicted in a jewelry store robbery gone bad. Abella weaves the courtroom scenes with cynical judges and crusading prosecutors with the darker scenes with the believers of Santeria, a mix of Catholic and West African religion. All of this leads to a surprising climax where the supernatural unexpectly shows up.
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