Chapter 1 Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Chapter 2 The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II

Chapter 3 Work and Death in the Global City: Natsuo Kirino’s Out as Neoliberal Noir

Chapter 4 “Local Hells” and State Crimes: Place, Politics, and Deviance in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet

Chapter 5 The State We’re In: Global Politics and Economics in the Novels of Dominique Manotti

Chapter 6 The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow

Chapter 7 True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico

Chapter 8 The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature

Chapter 9 Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts: Social Criticism, Epistemology, and Globalization

Chapter 10 John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security

Chapter 12 US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism