RAÚL ARGEMÍ
An award-winning novel by the acclaimed Argentine-born novelist unfolds during 1978, when most of Argentina was preparing to celebrate the World Cup soccer games--even as the country suffered through some of the harshest days under the the military dictatorship--and local mafia boss El Polaco orders his underling Negro Bentez to transport a major drug shipment to the border with Chile, only to have Negro encounter the dangerous but dazzling Irma the Paraguayan, a woman whose actions seem to inevitably complicate the destinies of Polaco and Negro.