"Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power: A Novel" by Paco Ignacio Taibo II

On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolcothe by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more.





The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. The massacre does not receive much international attention and though many students are detained, no officials are held accountable.
The story then skips ahead two years to a hospital in Mexico City and introduces Nestor, a fictional journalist who witnessed the shootings at Tlatelolcothe. He has been admitted to the hospital for a knife wound, and as he lies in bed, his fevered imagination goes back to the day of the riot. In his delirious state, he becomes so desperate he calls on the heroes of his youth—Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and D'Artagnan among them—to join him in launching a new movement of reform.

Contents
Dedication Note
I. If You Weren't Here.Where Would You Be?
The Others' Version: A as in Accident
II. General Without an Army
The Others' Version: В as in Biography
III. Interview
The Others' Version: С as in Context
IV. The Decision to Appeal to the Heroes
The Others' Version: D as in Documents
V. Liliana, General Headquarters,Letters and Telegrams
The Others' Version: E as in Examination
VI. Shadows and Answers
The Others' Version: F as in Fiesta
VII. A Question, Several Questions
The Others' Version: G as in Grab
VIII. The Arrival of the Characters and the Doubts of the Host
The Others' Version: H as in Hunches
IX. Strategy. Infirmary, and Mau Mau
The Others' Version: I as in Inertia
X. Momentous Meeting inthe Hospital Room
The Others' Version: J as in Justification
XI. Concerning the Insurrection
The Others' Version: К as in Kulture
XII. Concerning the Insurrection (II)
The Others' Version: L as in Legend
XIII. Judicial Police and Musketeers
The Others' Version: M as in Movement (The Following Year. Told Another Year Later)
XIV. Concerning the Insurrection (III)
The Others' Version: N as in Novels
XV. Organized Forces and Those Who Go It Alone
The Others' Version: О as in Outcasts
XVL To Return
Appendix One: Clarifications About Some Characters
Appendix Two: Clarifications About a Moment
About the Author
About the Translator
About PM Press
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