Shantytown [Paperback]

Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Airess shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone  including two innocent teenage girls  to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Airas fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics (At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises