Todo por la patria

A series of six crime novels by Martín Caparrós set in Buenos Aires in the 1930s All for the Fatherland (Vol. 1) Horror of Buenos Aires (Vol. 2) Gardel's Suicides (Vol. 3) Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Vol. 4) The Condemned Church (Vol. 5) Long Live Death (Vol. 6) Buenos Aires, 1933. Argentina's most famous footballer, Bernabé Ferreyra, of River Plate, disappears just as a beautiful young woman from Buenos Aires' upper class bleeds to death. Is there a connection between the two events? The hustler Andrés Rivarola, a friend of the man who supplies the footballer with cocaine and an accidental journalist, will try to answer that question. To do so, he will explore the city of Los 36 Billares and the tenement houses, the bookstores of Corrientes Avenue, the Café Tortoni, the Police Headquarters, the Jorge Luis Borges and Victoria Ocampo monuments, the slaughterhouse, the Palermo Hippodrome, and the offices of the newspaper Crítica. With a narrative rhythm that moves between detective fiction, historical fiction, and tango verses, against the backdrop of the rise of fascism, Martín Caparrós narrates in Todo por la patria not only the birth of a charming and atypical investigator, but also the creation of a mythology.