Author´s books
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The acid test
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Élmer Mendoza
Élmer Mendoza was born in Culiacán, Mexico, in 1949. He is a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. Mexican critics consider him "the first novelist to write a true account of the effects of drug trafficking in our country". He has been awarded the XVII José Fuentes Mares National Literary Prize, and he was a finalist in the Dashiel Hammet Prize in 2005. He has also won the III Tusquets Editores Prize for a novel in 2007 with 'Balas de plata' (Silver Bullets, 2008).