The Centipede Gang (La banda del Ciempiés)

The Centipede Gang (La banda del Ciempiés)

Novel
Penguin Random House, 2010
190 pages

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Spanish world-wide Penguin Random House

A terrific, gigantic worm formed by fifty men covered by a cloth wreaks terror in the city and forces private detective Carmody Trailler into action.

Smithe Andrews, the chief police, suspects that this dangerous band of criminals is of Chinese background, and orders a raid that leads to a series of diplomatic incidents, kidnappings, conspiracies, chases, acts of vengeance and international reprisals.

This is merely the opening of The Centipede Gang, a wild adventure which masterfully combines genres, humor, digressions and detours to create a dizzying universe where Mario Levrero once again finds a dazzling, unexpected way out.

A very entertaining piece of pulp fiction. Elvio Gandolfo