The tattooed soldier

Héctor Tobar First published 1998

About this book

A Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by a death squad spots one of the killers playing chess in a park in Los Angeles and plots revenge. The denouement comes during one of the city's riots

Subjects

  • california, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, psychological
  • fiction, suspense
  • fiction, thrillers, suspense
  • guatemala, fiction
  • guatemalan americans
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction