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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Live crooked, work straight |
 | | The queen of the title is Teresa Mendoza, a Mexican drug magnate, and the novel charts her transformation from poverty-stricken money launderer to multimillionaire head of a trafficking empire in southern Spain. |
 | | Julia Lovell detects the musketeer spirit in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Queen of the South, a tale of modern narcotraffickers |
 | | Considering the melodramatic nature of its plot ingredients - moustachioed Mexican drug-runners, ruthless Russians, extravagant shoot-outs - The Queen of the South is told in remarkably deadpan, realist tones. |
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