Line of Fire

Edited by Leobardo Saravia Quiroz; translated by Gustavo Segade, et al. Paper/ Pages: 98/ ISBN 1-879691-36-1. 1996. San Diego State University. SDSU Press. Baja California Literature in Translation.

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Line of Fire is a revised edition of En la línea de fuego: Relatos policiacos de frontera, originally published in Spanish by Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, México, D.F., 1990.

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In addition to the editor's critical introduction, there are stories by Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, Héctor Daniel Gómez Nieves, Leobardo Saravia Quiroz, Edgar Gómez Castellanos, José Manuel Di Bella, Carlos Martín Gutiérrez, Federico Campbell, Harry Polkinhorn, and Sergio Gómez Montero. From the Introduction by L. Saravia Quiroz: "It is not simply an anthology of detective stories about Baja California, but rather an effort by a group of writers to devise detective fiction that does not conform to the orthodoxy of the genre. A thematic anthology needs a tradition that gives it life and supports it. But such a tradition does not exist either in Baja California or in the rest of Mexico. The authors of these pages were inspired by the stimuli of daily events, remarkable occurrences, and the observation of a singular reality. In the stories selected, the interest lies in the psychological complexity of certain characters, in the motives and factors that lead to the crime, and in the culmination as the finger pulls the trigger.