Dionisio Vivo a young South American lecturer in philosophy is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend Ramon one of the few honest policemen in town the message is all too clear: Dionisios letters to the press exposing the drug barons must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lordis the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.