The first chapter of a new novel by the underground Mexican revolutionary known as Subcommander Marcos—“one of the best know Latin American revolutionaries since Che Guevara“—was published by the leftist newspaper La Journada yesterday. According to a Reuters wire story, the novel, Muertos Incomodos (Awkward Deaths), is a work-in-progress being co-written with bestselling crime novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II. “It is a police novel with strong political content that obviously touches on contemporary issues in Mexican society,” says Taibo, who spoke on behalf of Marcos, who is believed to be in hiding in Chiapas. According to Reuters, the book opens “as Zapatista Insurgent and Marcos-appointed investigator Elias Contreras embarks on a quest to track down Maria, a co-rebel who has disappeared.” The detective that stars in Taibo’s novels appears in the book, too. Explains Taibo, “The two (investigators) cross paths on an issue that we could say is of potent national interest, with national repercussions and having to do with one of the demons on the loose in this country.”