"Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel García Márquez."—_Kirkus Reviews_ A passionate political and psychological thriller set in a remote Argentinean Pampas town, _Target in the Night _is an intense and tragic family history reminiscent of _King Lear_, in which the madness of the detective is integral to solving crimes. _Target in the Night_, a masterpiece, won every major literary prize in the Spanish language in 2011.RICARDO PIGLIA (b. 1941), widely considered the greatest living Argentine novelist, has taught for decades in American universities, including most recently at Princeton.