Crimes and Misdemeanors

About the Book

1598. In the city of Amsterdam, a Flemish engraver and cartographer creates a map showing a marvelous land located in the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Guiana. A land tremendously rich in natural resources and filled with many legends. To get the attention of the public, the cartographer elaborates his map mixing solid facts and fantasy. Explorers from Europe fight to own a piece of Guiana. Four hundred years later, men, who bought the message sent by the Flemish engraver, are destroying the Amazon rainforests. 2017. A clever man in New York City earns a fortune working in the advertisement industry. Playing with signs, he sells tobacco and political fantasies. Man is the superior species but the Devil seems to be everywhere, living and flowing with the passions of human beings, touching everything that we do. What is the best way to survive in a world filled with all kind of crimes and misdemeanors? A shifter has found a “perfect” approach: See, swallow, think, piss, shoot and love.

About the Author

José Talleyrand Rodríguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He has received graduate degrees from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Indiana University and SUNY Stony Brook performing research in science, literature and cultural studies. In recent years he has published two novels, Sirena en Do Menor and Caballo Negro en Tierra de Gracia, and a book of short stories, Amores, Canciones, Estrellas y Pistolas. A lover of classic noir and modern Latin American literature who likes to examine phenomena associated with social injustice. He currently lives in the United States somewhere near New York City.