The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

By Manuel Ramos

Book Overview

Luis Montez is nursing a drink and licking his wounds in the Dark Knight Lounge after a bruising case. The jury took less than an hour to decide his efforts defending a client were worthless. He's on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312092717
• ISBN13: 9780312092719
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Crazy Hayride of a Chicano Mystery Novel

Though I'm not one for buying up every new mystery novel that comes out each year, I had a particular interest in "The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz" by Manuel Ramos because, as with Ramos, I am an attorney, a Chicano and a fiction writer. Well, I wasn't disappointed. Because this is a mystery with a fine, surprising ending, let me just say that I enjoyed the voice of the hardened, divorced, booze-loving protagonist, Luis Montez, a solo practitioner who finds his old friends from El Movimiento - the Chicano political movement - dying all around him. Throw in a beautiful, mysterious Chicana and things really start hopping. This short, tight novel will keep you guessing until the last pages. I highly recommend this book.