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London C ONTENTS Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction 1 Andrew Pepper and D avid Schmid The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II 21 David Schmid Work and Death in the Global City: Natsuo Kirino’s Out as Neoliberal Noir 3 9 Christopher Breu “Local Hells” and State Crimes: Place, Politics, and Deviance in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet 5 9 Katy Shaw The State We’re In: Global Politics and Economics in the  Novels of Dominique Manotti 7 9 Véronique Desnain v vi CONTENTS The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow 99 Casey Shoop True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico 119 Persephone Braham The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature 1 41 José-Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos , Enio Passiani , and Julio Souto Salom Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts: Social Criticism, Epistemology, and Globalization 1 59 Andrew Nestingen John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security 1 79 Andrew Pepper Geopolitical Reality: The Thriller, Global Power, and the  Logic of Revelation 197 Paul Cobley US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism 217 David Seed Index 2 39 N C OTES ON THE ONTRIBUTORS Persephone   Braham i s an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American lit- erature at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of C rimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico (2004), and From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America (2015) and editor of an interdisciplinary volume, A frican Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States (2014). Christopher   Breu i s Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. He is author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (2005). He is currently working on two book projects, Noir Affect , coedited with Elizabeth Hatmaker, and a theory monograph entitled Materialism/Materiality . Paul   Cobley i s Professor in Language and Media at Middlesex University, UK. He is the author of books including T he American Thriller (2000) and Narrative , 2nd edn (2014). He co-edits the journal Social Semiotics and is associate editor of C ybernetics and Human Knowing, as well as being the editor of a number of books and book series. He is President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS). Véronique   Desnain i s a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has published widely on French crime fi ction in books and journals including F rench Crime Fiction (2009), S ébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime (2009), and N ew Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Culture and Film (2009). She is guest editing a special issue on crime fi ction for Itinéraires (2015). vii viii NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Andrew   Nestingen i s Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Cinema Studies at the University of Washington, USA. His publications include The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (2014), S candinavian Crime Fiction (2011, co-e dited with Paula Arvas), Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia (2008), and Transnational Cinema in a Global North (2005, co-edited with Trevor Elkington). He is currently writing a book about the cultural politics of childhood in the Nordic countries and North America. Enio   Passiani i s Adjunct Professor of Sociology of Culture in the Department of Sociology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He is the author of Na trilha do Jeca: Monteiro Lobato e a formação do campo literário no Brasil (2003), and articles on sociological theory and on sociology of literature and reading. Andrew   P epper i s Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen’s University Belfast. His publications include The Contemporary American Crime Novel (2000), A merican History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (co-authored with Trevor McCrisken, 2005) and Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (2016). He has written a series of detective novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland including The Last Days of Newgate (2006). David   Schmid i s Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, USA. He is the author of N atural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (2005), the co-author of Z ombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (2015), and the editor of V iolence in American Popular Culture (2015). David   S eed i s an Emeritus Professor of American Literature at Liverpool University, UK. His publications include A merican Science Fiction and the Cold War (1999), B rainwashing (2004), and C inematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel Up to World War II (2009), He is currently editor of the Science Fiction Texts and Studies series for Liverpool University Press. His essay is part of a work in progress on nuclear terrorism fi ction. Katy   Shaw i s Head of Department and Associate Director of the Centre for Culture and the Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK.  Her publications include David Peace: Texts and Contexts , Mining the Meaning: Cultural Representations of the 1984–5 UK Miners’ Strike and C runch Lit . She is editor of C 21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings . NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ix Casey   Shoop i s a postdoctoral fellow at the Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, USA. His essays have appeared in C ontemporary Literature , Cultural Critique, SubStance and the Los Angeles Review of Books . He is currently working on a book project on the culture and poli- tics of the Reagan era. José   V icente Tavares dos Santos is Professor of Sociology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and a senior research fellow at the National Council of Scientifi c Development. He has published widely on the subjects of sociological theory, violence and social confl icts.