A plague has brought death to the city Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero The Redeemer to broker peace Both his instincts & the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage Yuri Herrera's novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico With echoes of Romeo & Juliet Roberto Bolano & Raymond Chandler The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy & a tribute to those bodies
- loved sanctified lusted after & defiled
- that violent crime has touched