Río Grande, Bravo... y sangriento: Narcotráfico, violencia y frontera en <em>Ask a Policeman</em>, del novelista chicano Rolando Hinojosa

In his detective novel Ask a Policeman (1998), and within the framework of the recently-emerged subgenre of narcoliterature, prestigious Chicano author Rolando Hinojosa explores not only the extreme violence and sadism which characterize such a criminal underworld, but also other topics such as the reality of the Chicano community nowadays, the current significance of the Mexico-US frontier, together with the interaction between the Spanish-speaking communities on both sides of the border