The Country of Toó

**A *Crime Reads* Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 •** **One of *Crime Reads* most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023**
**This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.**
Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he’s assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist—and his friend. When his conscience gives him pause and his patrón catches on, a remote Mayan community offers the Cobra a potential refuge, but the people there are up against predatory mining companies. With danger encroaching, the Cobra is forced to confront his violent past and make a decision about what he’s willing to risk in the future, and who it will be for.
Following the Cobra, Polo, a faction of drug-dealing oligarchs, and Jacobo, a child caught in the crosshairs, Rey Rosa maps an extensive web of corruption upheld by decades of political oppression. A scathing indictment of exploitation in all its forms, *The Country of Toó* is a gripping account of what it means to consider societal change under the constant threat of violence.