Twenty  years ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring  Sergeant George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed  on the US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of  the Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and  short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which the 8th  Army has come into conflict with local Korean law enforcement--often  incidents in which American soldiers, who are not known for being on  their best behavior in their Asian host country, have committed a crime.  George Sueño's job is partially to solve crimes, but mostly to cover  top brass's backside and make sure the US Army doesn't look bad.  Thoughtful, observant George, who is conversant in Korean, constantly  faces difficult choices about whether to follow his orders or his  conscience.
Nine critically acclaimed novels later, Soho Crime is  releasing a collection of Martin Limón's award-winning short stories  featuring Sergeants Sueño and Bascom. The stories within have been  published over the last twenty years in a variety of magazines, mostly  in Alfred Hitchcock, but have never before been available in book  form. This beautifully produced limited-edition hardcover volume is  sure to attract both critical attention and to appeal to collectors. A  must-have for literary mystery readers.