Buenos Aires Triad

The tale is based around petty crim Lucas who starts from lowly beginnings with watch thieving and then gets caught up in extortion rackets among the Chinese mafia in Buenos Aries. The reader gets a fairly gritty description of the life in an economically struggling Argentina with all the other problems that come with that, such as intercommunal issues.

Not being into crime fiction particularly, I enjoyed this more than I thought I might. Being short in length it did not overstay its welcome. Also, crime in Argentina is not a subject I had ever really thought about. Ideal reading on a rainy Saturday morning here in usually sunny Brisbane, a city that seems a world away from the trials and tribulations of South American crime.