Fountain at the Centre of the World

by Robert Newman

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Everyone is looking for Chano Salgado...High-flying corporate PR executive Evan Hatch is dying. Dying not of the rich man's illness, but of chagas, a beetle-borne disease endemic to Latin America. Desperate for a cure, Evan travels to Mexico in search of the bone-marrow tissue match that only the brother he has never met can provide. Police and soldiers across Tamaulipas, Mexico's north-eastern state, are hunting Chano Salgado. A reclusive young widower and political apostate, Salgado's work sterilizing bottles in a tiny, smoky shack comes to an end when he is persuaded to blow up the pipelines of Ethylclad, a hazchem sluicing operation sucking the local groundwater dry, and he's forced to go on the run. Meanwhile, impoverished teenager Daniel Salgado boards a Costa Rican fishing smack in search of his long-lost father, knowing only the name of the Mexican village where he was born.
  • ISBN10 1844675238
  • ISBN13 9781844675234
  • Publish Date 16 August 2004 (first published 1 September 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 January 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Verso Books
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 346
  • Language English