Twenty years
ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring Sergeant
George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the
US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the
Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and
short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which the 8th
Army has come into conflict with local Korean law enforcement—often
incidents in which American soldiers, who are not known for being on
their best behavior in their Asian host country, have committed a crime.
George Sueño's job is partially to solve crimes, but mostly to cover
top brass's backside and make sure the US Army doesn't look bad.
Thoughtful, observant George, who is conversant in Korean, constantly
faces difficult choices about whether to follow his orders or his
conscience.
Nine critically acclaimed novels
later, Soho Crime is releasing a collection of Martin Limón's
award-winning short stories featuring Sergeants Sueño and Bascom. The
stories within have been published over the last twenty years in a
variety of magazines, mostly in Alfred Hitchcock, but have never
before been available in book form. This beautifully produced
limited-edition hardcover volume is sure to attract both critical
attention and to appeal to collectors. A must-have for literary mystery
readers.