Briefcases from Caracas

Author: Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez

Translators: Suzanne Corley and Barbara D. Riess

Publisher: Black Square Editions (2024)

Inspired by a real-life event of undeclared cash carried from Venezuela to Argentina in 2007, Briefcases from Caracas is an extraordinarily literary blend of the classic noir novel and international political thriller, the first of this prolific author’s novels  to appear in English. Mendez Guédez’s Caracas—gritty and sublime—is the sinking ship at the center of this twenty-first century transnational Stevensonian Caribbean tale of shifting conflicts, loyalties, and surprising treasures.