Paperback. Pub Date: 2010. Pages: 436 in Publisher: Grove Press When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracun. Investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple of homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police officer Ramn el Macetn Caera discovers. Blanco had been writing a book about a 1970s case dealing with the murder of several young schoolgirls in Paracun by a man known as el Chacal. Caera realizes that whoever killed Blanco wanted to keep the truth about el Chacal from being revealed. and he becomes determined to discover that truth. The Black Minutes chronicles both Caera's investigation into Blanco's murder and goes back in time to follow detective Vicente Rangel's investigation of the original el Chacal case. Both narratives expose worlds of corruption. from cops who are content...