# An Easy Thing

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- Authors: [Paco Ignacio Taibo](https://www.bookquiver.com/paco-ignacio-taibo-ii)
- Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
- ISBN: 978-15-9058-006-6
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2002-06-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Revolution, rumored to be alive and hiding out in a cave outside Mexico City. Combining black comedy, social history and a touch of surrealism, Paco Taibo's wonderfully idiosyncratic detective novels are admired the world over and are particularly popular in Europe and in the Spanish-speaking world.