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In Joe Gannons debut novel, Night of the Jaguar,a former Sandinista guerrilla comandante turned cop investigates a series of murders that appear to be political executions.Sandinista Police Captain Ajax Montoya is six days sober and losing his mind. How else to explain his nights waking in bed, his hand wrapped around that bloody-minded stiletto from the old days, or the presence outside his window, a face with no eyes watching himHow far the heroic have fallen. Ajax was once the gallant comandante guerrillero. A hero of the Nicaraguan revolutionaries in their long uprising against the Ogre and his hated National Guard. Back then hed been the guy who got the bloody missions -- as a lowly grunt with that blade, or the commander of an entire front.
About the Author
JOE GANNON, writer, teacher, set dresser, editor and spoken word artist, was a freelance journalist in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution, writing for The Christian Science Monitor, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and the San Francisco Examiner. Since then his writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Independent (London) , the Valley Advocate and the Daily Hampshire Gazette. He spent three years in the army, graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and received his MFA at Pine Manor College. After a stint teaching in Abu Dhabi he is now working on his second novel - the next in the Ajax Montoya series.
