- Published: 1 November 1992
- ISBN: 9780749399627
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $28.99
Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord
- Published: 1 November 1992
- ISBN: 9780749399627
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $28.99
Sharp, funny, engaging...de Bernieres is doing for Colombia's drug culture what Tom Sharpe did for apartheid. His approach is flippant, but the purpose behind it is deadly serious
Financial Times
Vibrant, lucid, charged with wild jokes and harrowing scenes smelted with torture...a book which shudders with memorability...satirical and splendid
Scotland on Sunday
It's a delightfully mesmerising book. Set in a mythical South American country that's a composite of real South American history and Bernières's fertile imagination, and therefore a perfect companion to take on a south-of-the-border vacation - the book is awash in the realities and flavour of South America and the lunacies of Bernières's genius
Stephanie Gold
Amusing, terrifying and ultimately sobering
New York Times Book Review