Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policeman in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio’s letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-man sent to get him, he soon realises that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge.
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord is a novel by Louis de Bernières. It is the second of his Latin American trilogy, following on from The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts and preceding The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman.