A businessman gets blackmailed by a magazine editor. His wife has a sexual relationship with his friend's wife. The magazine editor gets killed. Who did it?
True, there is some criticism on the totalitarian regime in Peru, and there is some attacks on the hypocrisy of the wealthier classes and on the sensationalism of the tabloid press, and the uncomfortable symbiosis of power, wealth and journalism.
Yet the characters are uninteresting, the sex is cheap, the writing too much done on automatic pilot.
Quickly written, quickly read. A novel you expect from a beginner, but from Vargas Llosa?
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