The Bullet Inside Me

By Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya, By Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya, Translated by Andrea G. Labinger, Translated by Andrea G. Labinger

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FICTION

256 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $18.95 (US $18.95) (CA $24.95)

Publication Date: November 2026

ISBN 9781639640904

Rights: WOR

Schaffner Press (Nov 2026)

Not Yet Published. Estimated release date: November 2026

Overview
Author Biography

Overview

Acclaimed Argentine thriller writer Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya (The Sanctuary) returns with a harrowing tale of society in decay. When the five year old daughter of a Federal Police Officer (and granddaughter of a powerful notary) is kidnapped, Homicide Detective Federico “El Pardo” Bazán is assigned to track her down, launching an investigation that threatens to uncover corruption at the highest levels of government and risks sparking and all-out war between the Federal and Provincial Police forces. Set in Argentina during the 1978 World Cup, a time when the country was under the brutal control of a military dictatorship, and thousands of the “disappeared” were disposed of in a raging inferno dubbed the garbage dump, The Bullet Inside Me is a frightening journey through a hellish landscape of ruthless oppression, bloodthirsty security forces, and marauding bands of corpse-looting hooligans, where no one is innocent and trust is a distant memory.

Author Biography

Writer and Psychiatrist Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya was born in Buenos Aires in 1952. He is the author of the novels El Criadero, Los Infernautas, and The Envoy (with Leonardo Killian). El Criadero was originally published in Spain, where it won the 2002 José Boris Spivacow Award, and was subsequently published in Argentina, Cuba, and here in America by Schaffner Press as The Sanctuary (2023), marking Abrevaya’s first English language translation. The Bullet Inside Me is his second work to be translated in English. Andrea G. Labinger has published numerous translations of Latin American fiction. Gesell Dome, her translation of Guillermo Saccomanno's noir novel Cámara Gesell (Open Letter 2016), won a PEN/Heim Translation Award and was long-listed for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award. She also translated Saccomanno’s 77 (Open Letter 2019). She has previously translated Patricia Ratto’s Proceed With Caution (2021) and Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya’s The Sanctuary (2023) for Schaffner Press.

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