El vendedor de silencio

Carlos Denegri is, in mid-century Mexico, the journalist everyone fears. He writes for Excélsior, has friends in every capital, and his political column works as an unofficial voice of the presidency: he takes money for every name he prints and can destroy any reputation without consequence, so that one jab from him can sink a politician's career. Flattery pays him millions, but silence pays better, and he blackmails the powerful men whose secrets he holds. At home he is the same tyrant, cruel and violent towards the women in his life, his sickness as private as it is public. The novel rests on extensive research into a real journalist.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

485 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Mexico, mid-20th century

First published

2019 by Alfaguara

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9786073182256 (original)