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Posted by: Beatrice French Apr 04, 2011

Pandemic of Lies is a novel which takes place in a mythical South American nation called Banador, whose president is a homosexual haunted by the existence of an unauthorized revealing video. The protagonist Manuel Cruz, a Cuban-American, has values quite different from those of the natives. He loves truth, but in Banador too much truth can get you killed. The author comes across as an interesting mixture of Dostoyevsky, Kafka, and Stieg Larsson. Lopez exhibits the same preoccupation with conscience as Dostoyevsky and creates a fantastic character out of a giant turtle reminiscent of Kafka's Gregor Samsa. Lopez also denounces the cancerous innards of a Banadorian political society as rotten to the core as that of Larsson’s own in Sweden.