New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The four hands of the title refer to the hands of two investigative journalists, one Mexican and one American, and this novel travels back and forth in time, weaves together several seemingly disparate stories set in Mexico- from Stan Laurel witnessing the assassination of Pancho Villa, finding Trotsky's notes for a crime novel, to a miner's takeover of a coal mine in the 1930s and more. Translated from the Spanish by Laura C. Dail. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-312109873.