This story is the answer to a question that has never been asked, a confession that no one has requested, a confession motivated by we don’t know what: remorse perhaps, or simply the urgent need to deal with the question of what really happened. An old man, now the janitor at a kindergarten but in the past a hired killer and henchman of King Lopitos, recounts the life of the Mexican bandit who for decades ruled over Acapulco as a genuine popular hero, despite the acts of violence and the crimes he committed. The idol of an entire population of outcasts and the disinherited, King Lopitos was responsible for the weakening of the official powers who, weary of his inordinate influence, had him eliminated by hired killers. Written by an author with tremendously subtle powers of observation, with abundant characters and a tone that is almost surrealist, King Lopitos takes its place among the most successful and captivating works of Latin-American literature.