Lobo, by David Gordon Burke
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Lobo, by David Gordon Burke
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Monterrey, Mexico - A two hour drive from the northern border with Texas, the country's third largest city and center of industry. Look beneath the power and wealth and you'll discover corruption, greed, class divisions and a web of influence, impunity and incompetence. A society in conflict, struggling to deal with the invasion of their streets by the drug Cartels. The lives of a six year old orphan girl, a priest, an ex-con and a German Shepherd dog are changed forever when Hurricane Alex hits the city in June 2010. 'Lobo' is the story of a German shepherd lost in the Urban Jungle in the aftermath of a hurricane and his struggle to return to his family. A tale of loyalty and redemption written in the tradition of classic Dog stories, with a Mexican twist.
Lobo, by David Gordon Burke- Amazon Sales Rank: #8670456 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .65" w x 6.00" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A captivating story with a Mexican flavor. By Ed This is a well written book set in Monterrey Mexico. It takes you into the world of cartels, drug gangs and dog fighting. The use of first person narratives by most of the major characters was a style I wasn't used to but I very soon found myself taken up by it. The story flows well and is neatly wrapped up at the end. I found it captivating and definitely worthy of at least a four star rating. I take one star off for editing and proof reading. The number of typos and other small errors was similar to that of some self-published books I have read. The letter "a" and some other words like "all" show up at inappropriate times. It's the type of error that a spell check will not catch. There were a very few errors in the use of the past tense and the now endemic English error of the use of the nominative "I" when the objective "me": should have been used as in "Pepe gave it to Lobo and I". You give something to "me", not to "I". Despite these quibbles, I found myself enthralled by a master story teller and I highly recommend this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Well Woven Story Of Redemption (and a BIG dog). By Susannah St Clair Foxy Loxy At first I thought this was more like a travel guide to a spot in Mexico. Mr. Burke does a very good job of giving the reader a good look at the area he has set his story in and it is quite a story! La Independencia / Barrio San Luisito was a small part of Monterrey , Nuevo Leon which had been formed to settle the workers from other parts of Mexico to build the city. Now Monterrey is a huge modern city but the Barrio is not so much so. The author shows the problem the people face living there. A government that is uninterested in it’s people and more interested in how much money they can siphon out of the system. ( hum.. sound familiar?) We have many similar spots in America, Chicago and New York come to mind. Places where even the Cops stay out of. So in this settling, we meet our main characters. Padre Miguel, and Pepe his childhood friend and Pepe’s now orphaned granddaughter, Antonia who is around nine years of age. The two men had been as brothers all throughout their younger years but Miguel became a Padre and Pepe had started to run with one of the numerous gangs associated with the area. Pepe got in way over his head and then had to run leaving his wife and young daughter to fend for themselves. She lives long enough to raise her child Maria, Antonia’s mother and then dies of cancer. It is Maria and her husband Arturo who were killed leaving Antonia alone. Pepe has come back to take care of his granddaughter . This is the setting and backdrop for the story of Antonia and Lobo. There are parts in this book that are hard to read. Especially if your an animal lover but our author is writing about the realities of that life and the animals living them. We have exactly the same situations on this side of the border but thank goodness we have come to realize that gangs, dog fighting and crime all go hand in hand and our police force seems much more willing to crack down on them than the more corruptible local police of the barrio. I admire how Mr. Burke creates a great narrative that is fast paced and in depth. You, the reader, will become involved and learn to care about the lives created in this book. I can’t guarantee that your EVER gonna find a dog that “thinks” like this one but it sure would be fun. The author gives you a lot to think about and quietly teaches you some important lessons while making you root for the people you have come to know . I highly recommend this book but it is not for the faint of heart and just because that is so, then you should read it. This kind of thing is rampant in his world of Mexico and here in the United States.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating story: Lobo put to the test By Wrnewton It’s been a long time since I read a story where a dog was a major character, or so I thought when I started to read Lobo, but I soon recalled one of my recent favorites, Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing, where a wolf plays a large part in locales farther west in Mexico. Then I became drawn into following the shepherd from his puppyhood through being adopted by a little girl, lost in a storm and on to a life as a stray on the streets and then into the hands of men who subject dogs to unspeakable horror for money. The setting is modern day Monterrey Mexico and environs where Burke relates many of the urban problems and gritty realities that impact Lobo and his canine and human associates during their daily lives. Death is just around the corner for man and beast. At one point during a stakeout near the end of the story, a police officer says, “I have to tell you, I love these last minute raids. There’s nothing like the possibility of dying on a Friday night to make a man feel alive.” The author shows how the shepherd’s character comes through all during his life: he is strong and dominant yet he is protective of the weak, be they canine or human. His life is played out through the first person points of view of a number of characters in what is like an extended series of interviews, reminiscent of certain television documentaries where several persons are called up to narrate, making up an entire story from many facets of it. It’s as if each character has told his story to a ghost writer, since most of the characters would not “talk” in standard speech the way that their narrations read, had they been quoted directly. Their dialects, even translated, could have distracted from the story, but the way it’s written works very well. The average reader, engrossed in the story itself, might not mind that the author’s proofreader could have reviewed the text more closely, but this should not put off the reader from such an interesting story, one that is sure to please.
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