by Chester Himes · Bruguera. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402065148
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«Corre, hombre» is a crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Bruguera in 1979 in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Walker is a New York policeman who, when he drinks, becomes violent. One freezing night he kills two Black employees in a cafeteria; a third man witnesses the murders and flees, and Walker pursues him relentlessly through Harlem. The novel shows racism and police brutality.
Original title: Run Man Run. Libro Amigo collection (no. 674), Crime Novel series (no. 35). Translation by Antonio Prometeo Moya.
For readers of classic crime and detective fiction, with a chase plot and social critique.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
