The Hidden Light of Mexico City
by Carmen Amato
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Carmen Amato
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| Publisher | Author Carmen Amato |
| Publication | Apr 06, 2012 |
| Format | EBook |
| ISBN | 978-0985325602 |
| Pages | 445 |
| Age | 18 - 99 |
| Price | $4.99 |
The Hidden Light of Mexico City
A stunning political thriller set in Mexico with a Cinderella story subplot. Expect characters who leap off the page and a chilling border scenario that could be tomorrow's headlines.
2020 Longlist, Millennium Book Award
As presidential elections near, Mexico City attorney Eduardo Cortez Castillo uncovers a scheme between Mexico's Minister of Public Security and a powerful drug cartel to buy the Mexican presidency. He'll follow the money trail deep into drug smuggling territory where the odds of survival are low.
Back in Mexico City, a housemaid who dreams of being an artist faces a painful choice. Try to escape poverty and make a new life alone in the United States. Or believe in Eduardo's promises of a life together despite the huge social gulf between them in status-conscious Mexico.
She doesn't know that her time is running out. Eduardo's enemies are looking for her, too.
This fast-moving political thriller takes you on a riveting ride through Mexico's spiraling drug violence and what it will take to break the rigid class system.
”A rivetingly dramatic tale of politics and corruption, and a man and a woman from opposite ends of the social spectrum who fall in love.” - Literary Fiction Review
“Captivating and thrilling” - InDTale Magazine
THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY is a thriller for readers of Nelson DeMille, Andrew Gross, Ken Follett, and Don Winslow's cartel and border thrillers set in Mexico.
Author Carmen Amato is a former CIA intelligence officer who uses her own counterdrug and espionage background to craft intrigue-filled crime fiction that keeps you guessing until the very end. Amato is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal. In THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY, personal experiences thicken the plot.
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"Political thriller "The Hidden Light of Mexico City" illuminates the fight for Mexico's future with real characters, passion for the place, and brutal truth pulled from today's headlines. Author Carmen Amato draws on her own experiences living in Mexico and Central America to stake the classic Cinderella story against Mexican government corruption, drug cartel violence and the country's crippled society in this unflinching and intricately plotted novel."
Author
Carmen Amato
CIA veteran Carmen Amato is the author of the Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series pitting the first female police detective in Acapulco against Mexico's cartels, corruption, and social inequality amid the hunt for Mexico's missing. Starting with Cliff Diver, the series is a back-to-back winner of the Poison Cup Award for Outstanding Series from CrimeMasters of America. Optioned for television, National Public Radio hailed it as “A thrilling series.”
Carmen is also the author of the Galliano Club historical fiction thrillers inspired by her grandfather who was a deputy sheriff in New York during Prohibition. Murder at the Galliano Club won the 2023 Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical. Revenge at the Galliano Club, was a finalist for the same award in 2024.
Her standalone thrillers include The Hidden Light of Mexico City, which was longlisted for the 2020 Millennium Book Award.
A 30-year veteran of the CIA where she focused on technical collection and counterdrug issues, Carmen is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal.
A judge for the BookLife Prize and Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award, her essays have appeared in Criminal Element, Publishers Weekly, and other national publications.
Originally from upstate New York, Carmen's experiences in Mexico and Central America ignited her writing career. After years of globetrotting, she currently resides in Tennessee.