Servando is the chief of chiefs. Ariel is the one who fended off two hundred hitmen. The Mier are legendary in their midst, inseparable from the history of a sick land. In this crime novel, Dante Mier returns to San Juan Betulia after going into exile in France because the only way to protect someone is help them disappear. Set in a geography similar to Mexico, where social terror is intertwined with the primal and supernatural, Jaime Mesa presents a fundamental novel about the violence that besets us and about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it.