Luis Montez is nursing a drink and licking his wounds in the Dark Knight Lounge after a bruising case. The jury took less than an hour to decide his efforts defending a client were worthless. He's on the verge of a mid-life crisis and ready to give up his law business. But the night brightens when an old friend from the Chicano student civil rights movement turns up with a beautiful woman on his arm. Teresa Fuentes, a new attorney about to start at a prestigious Denver firm, is much younger, but that doesn't keep Luis' ...
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Luis Montez is nursing a drink and licking his wounds in the Dark Knight Lounge after a bruising case. The jury took less than an hour to decide his efforts defending a client were worthless. He's on the verge of a mid-life crisis and ready to give up his law business. But the night brightens when an old friend from the Chicano student civil rights movement turns up with a beautiful woman on his arm. Teresa Fuentes, a new attorney about to start at a prestigious Denver firm, is much younger, but that doesn't keep Luis' imagination from running wild. As the weary attorney dreams about the mysterious woman and deals with his faltering law firm and an ethics investigation, he's shocked to learn another friend from the activist days is getting threats about "the old business," the murder of their friend Rocky Ruiz twenty years ago by men in white robes. And when compadres get beaten up, murdered or go into hiding, Luis can't ignore that history may be repeating itself. Are the crazy racists back to finish what they started so long ago? Is it just bad luck that Teresa's arrival in town coincides with the violence? Or is there a deeper connection? Originally published in 1993 by St. Martin's Press and reissued by Northwestern University Press in 2004, this gripping first installment in the Luis Montez Mystery series introduces readers to the Denver attorney and activist who appears in four subsequent novels.
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New York. 1993. July 1993. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312092717. Winner of the 1991 University of California at Irvine Chicano/Latino Literary Contest. 201 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Eric Dinyer. keywords: Literature Mystery Latino America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Author's first book and winner of the University of California at Irvine Chicano/Latino Literary Contest. In his debut novel, Ramos introduces Luis Montez, a middle-aged Chicano lawyer living in Denver. An acquaintance of Luis's old college friends who was active in the Chicano student movement has been killed, and now Luis must delve into his past and re-examine the past murder of his friend Rocky Ruiz. inventory #31812.