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King of the Chicanos Author: Manuel Ramos Published: March 26, 2010 by Wings Press Both heroic and tragic, this novel captures the spirit, energy, and imagination of the 1960s' Chicano movement—a massive and intense struggle across a broad spectrum of political and cultural issues—through the passionate story of the King of the Chicanos, Ramón Hidalgo. From his very humble beginnings through the tumultuous decades of being a migrant farm worker, door-to-door salesman, prison inmate, political hack, and radical activist, the novel relates Hidalgo’s personal failures and self-destructive personality amid the political turmoil of the times. |
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The Last Client of Luis Montez Author: Manuel Ramos Published: June 15, 2004 by Northwestern University Press Series Name: Latino Voices Main Character: Luis Móntez, Lisa Esch, Jesus Móntez Hard-luck attorney Luis Móntez has hit the big-time at last. He's successfully defended Jimmy Esch, the good-for-nothing son of a powerful Denver family. No small bonus, Jimmy's attractive sister Lisa is, as the saying goes, appreciative. It's enough to make a man quit moping about a lost love. What a difference a day makes. Inside of twenty-four hours, a cop rumored to have received bribes from Móntez takes a header off a mountain, Jimmy Esch is found butchered, and the cops consider the attorney their top suspect. Lisa -- Móntez's alibi -- has conveniently disappeared. Click for more info. |
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Blues For The Buffalo Author: Manuel Ramos Published: June 15, 2004 by Northwestern University Press Series Name: Latino Voices Main Character: Luis Móntez, Rachel Espinoza, Jesus Móntez The sun, the sand, a young beauty named Rachel in a white bikini-there's no better way to recover from the aches and pains of your latest case. At least that's what attorney and part-time detective Luis Móntez thinks until the woman gives him the manuscript of her novel and vanishes. Móntez just wants to rebuild his Denver practice, but an aggressive young P.I. with an emotional attachment to Rachel draws him in. With the woman's powerful adopted family on one side and unexplained death of a writer friend on the other, Móntez digs up a series of long-told lies and long-hidden ugly truths. Click for more info. |
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The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz Author: Manuel Ramos Published: January 15, 2004 by Northwestern University Press Series Name: Latino Voices Main Character: Luis Móntez, Teresa Fuentes, Jesus Móntez This debut novel in the Luis Móntez series (first published by St. Martin's Press) introduced a hero unique in detective fiction: a world-weary middle-aged lawyer steeped in the politics, history, and culture of the golden age of Chicano activism. Twenty years ago, a gang attacked four Chicano student activists and shot down their leader, Rocky Ruiz. Now the survivors, Móntez's former compatriots in the movement, are in danger. One is killed, another beaten, and a third driven into hiding. Click for more info. |
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The Ballad of Gato Guerrero Author: Manuel Ramos Published: January 15, 2004 by Northwestern University Press Series Name: Latino Voices Main Character: Luis Móntez, Felix Guerrero, Jesus Móntez Luis Móntez--Denver attorney and part-time detective--has been getting his career and his life together. So how did he end up in a ditch, his car twisted and smoking nearby, a gun-wielding giant in a cowboy hat coming toward him? Click for more info. |
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Brown-on-Brown Author: Manuel Ramos Published: May 15, 2003 by University of New Mexico Press Main Character: Luis Móntez, Alicia Aragón, Jesus Móntez Brown-On-Brown marks the return of Luis Móntez after a six year absence. A Denver defense attorney who is always just one step ahead of his creditors and not too particular about the cases he takes on, Móntez's next client is Dominic Santos. Santos has been charged with torching the property of a powerful San Luis Valley rancher and causing the death of a hired hand. Click for more info. |
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Moony's Road To Hell Author: Manuel Ramos Published: July 16, 2002 by University of New Mexico Press Main Character: Danny "Moony" Mora, Lorraine Garza It all starts with the murder of INS agent Kiko Vigil, shot by an unknown gunman in a Larimer Street bar in Denver where he was drinking with the wife of Elías Garza, a major smuggler of illegal immigrants. Private investigator Danny Mora, known to his oldest friends as Moony, is hired by a colleague of Vigil's to look into the shooting. Did Vigil make the fatal error of sleeping with Garza's beautiful wife, or is that just a cover story? Was the INS on the verge of ruining Garza's business? Click for more info. |
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