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Our Lady of the Assassins

Fernando Vallejo

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1994
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 140

An old writer comes home to Medellin and takes up with a teenage hitman who shoots anyone who annoys them; when the boy is gunned down he takes up with another, who turns out to have killed the first, and who dies the same way.

God doesn't exist, and if he does, he's the great gonorrhea.
Our Lady of the Assassins, Fernando Vallejo

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