A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that
itself challenged the Mexican political establishment,
Guzm‡n's The Shadow of the Strongman (La Sombra del Caudillo)
stands beside Azuela's The Underdogs (Los de abajo) in the pantheon
of Mexican fiction. Unmasking the years of political intrigue and
assassination that followed the Revolution, the novel was adapted
in the 1960 film La Sombra del Caudillo, which was banned in Mexico
for thirty years.