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BooksReviewA brave and important book that charts the rise of one of the most successful drugs barons of all time and the shocking cost to MexicoJoaquín Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo (Shorty), is one of the most successful drugs barons of all time and one of the world’s wealthiest people. Anabel Hernández’s forensically detailed account, translated by Iain Bruce and Lorna Scott Fox, of the rise of this “king of betrayal and bribery” over the last two decades reveals the shocking price Mexico has paid for not eliminating him and the other drugs cartels.
Israel-Gaza war This article is more than 1 month old‘Overjoyed’: nine-year-old hostage Emily Hand returns to family in IsraelThis article is more than 1 month oldRelatives say they ‘can’t find the words to describe our emotions’ as Israeli-Irish girl comes back from Gaza Israel-Hamas war – live updates The family and friends of Emily Hand have spoken of their joy after Hamas released the nine-year-old Israeli-Irish girl from captivity in Gaza late on Saturday.
Point of viewBooksIt's often the setting of a novel that comes to mind for Philip Hensher rather than plot or characterEvery novelist finds it difficult to write about spatial arrangements. I don't know why. It's often unbelievably hard to get a character to go from one room to another, and novelists have been driven mad by the challenge – the 19th-century Austrian novelist Adalbert Stifter fills pages with insane, over-specific accounts of walking forward and opening doors.
The ObserverFictionReviewThe Spanish novelist’s final book is a twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour An espionage thriller in sinuous slow motion, Tomás Nevinson is the final novel from Javier Marías, who died in his native Madrid last autumn at the age of 70. It centres on an eponymous ex-spy (featured in Marías’s previous novel, Berta Isla) coaxed out of retirement for one last job: to catch and potentially kill a terrorist gone to ground in northern Spain after bombings in Barcelona and Zaragoza.