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Smaller And Smaller Circles
F.H. Batacan
Soho
August 2015
On Sale: August 18, 2015
Featuring: Guz Saenz; Jerome Lucero
368 pages
ISBN: 1616953985
EAN: 9781616953980
Kindle: B00Q1I2S50
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Mystery | Thriller
Payatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila’s Quezon City,
is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can
scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a
city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid
of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the
eviscerated bodies of preteen boys begin to appear in the
dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the
matter of protecting their flock into their own hands.
Father Gus Saenz is a respected forensic anthropologist, one
of the few in the Philippines, and has been tapped by the
Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a
backup for police efforts. Together with his protégé, Father
Jerome Lucero, a psychologist, Saenz dedicates himself to
tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished boys. Smaller and Smaller Circles, widely regarded as the first
Filipino crime novel, is a poetic masterpiece of literary
noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and a
fascinating story about the Catholic Church and its place in
its devotees’ lives.
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