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    Playing for the Devil's Fire
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    Playing for the Devil's Fire
    Audiobook8 hours

    Playing for the Devil's Fire

    Written by Phillippe Diederich

    Narrated by Ozzie Rodriguez

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    About this audiobook

    Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. It's a typical hot Sunday morning except that on the way to church someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in the plaza and everything changes. Not apocalyptic changes, like phalanxes of men riding on horses with stingers for tails, but subtle ones: poor neighbors turning up with brand-new SUVs, pimpled teens with fancy girls hanging off them. Boli's parents leave for Toluca and don't arrive at their destination. No one will talk about it. A washed out masked wrestler turns up one day, a man only interested in finding his next meal. Boli hopes to inspire the luchador to set out with him to find his parents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 28, 2016
    ISBN9781524723835
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