When Dionisio Vivo, a young lecturer in philosophy, bombards the newspapers with denunciations of the cocaine mafia, he finds himself both a hero and a target. He soon becomes accustomed to the corpses that turn up on his doorstep, and attempts on his life that backfire so wildly Senor Vivo acquires a reputation for supernatural invulnerability. But Dionisio's protection does not extend to those he loves. And what begins as a farce, becomes a novel of tragic love and macabre revenge.