Gleaming Buenos Aires. A city where siesta, fresh mate, or a glass of wine diluted with soda is the only salvation from daytime heat. Here life wakes up toward evening, when the streets of bohemian neighborhoods fill with endlessly honking cars and brightly dressed people; when clubs and restaurants open their doors; when a piercing melody of Argentine tango starts playing in a small bar called “Los Angeles de Piedra,” whose entrance is guarded by silent sentinels—seventeen stone angels. Dangerous Buenos Aires. The city of police commissioner Miguel Fortunato. A city where good and evil constantly change masks—where policemen and gangsters, bankers and politicians, revolutionaries and executioners are all tied to one another and obliged to one another. Where, on the night streets, in any argument, the winner is the one who handles a knife better.
Cohen not only created an original and gripping detective plot, but also managed to portray the dangerous and alluring world of Buenos Aires brilliantly, capturing its unique flavor.