Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction....Pages 1-19
The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II....Pages 21-38
Work and Death in the Global City: Natsuo Kirino’s Out as Neoliberal Noir....Pages 39-57
“Local Hells” and State Crimes: Place, Politics, and Deviance in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet....Pages 59-77
The State We’re In: Global Politics and Economics in the Novels of Dominique Manotti....Pages 79-98
The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow....Pages 99-118
True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico....Pages 119-139
The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature....Pages 141-157
Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts: Social Criticism, Epistemology, and Globalization....Pages 159-177
John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security....Pages 179-196
Geopolitical Reality: The Thriller, Global Power, and the Logic of Revelation....Pages 197-216
US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism....Pages 217-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-247