In a forgotten town deep in the Sonoran Desert, global greed lights the fuse. A foreign mining company, a ruthless fixer, a local cartel, and a community unwilling to surrender face off in a deadly power struggle filled with pressure, betrayal, corruption, and murder. A thriller with strong dramatic and social overtones, rooted in local reality and based on urgent contemporary issues.
Guy Chamberlain, chief engineer at the Canadian multinational Inuit Mining Corporation, discovers one of the world’s largest lithium deposits beneath a remote village in the Sonoran Desert. The find triggers a ruthless corporate operation to seize total control of the territory. To do so, the company engages in widespread bribery of local authorities, intimidation tactics, and coercion to buy land at a fraction of its real value.
Leading the operation is Marc Pierce, an American national and Inuit’s key fixer in Mexico—a man who moves seamlessly between legality and crime. Morally bankrupt and predatory, Marc maintains sexual relationships with homeless minors.
With most of the land already acquired and foreign investors lined up, the company hits an unexpected obstacle: two key properties remain unsold, and the heart of the lithium vein lies beneath them. They are owned by Don Rómulo Santos and María Antonieta Ochoa, who lives with her ailing mother, Ana María. Ramón, the local police chief and part of the corruption network, tries to pressure them through his wife Angelina, a close friend of both women. When that fails, Marc steps in—his reputation built precisely on “making things happen in Mexico.”
To escalate pressure, he calls in the Arriaga cartel, unleashing a spiral of violence in the town.
Social tensions rise, the community fractures, and blood is spilled. Don Rómulo and his son are murdered. María Antonieta’s family ranch is partially torched. Cornered and broken, she finally sells the land—but later, overwhelmed by grief and rage, shoots Ramón.
Meanwhile, Marc begins to lose control. A shadowy network tied to Chinese interests threatens to expose his abuse of minors. In a desperate move to protect himself, he leaks sensitive information about Inuit’s practices. The fallout is swift: the Canadian company is forced out, and the lithium exploitation ultimately falls into Chinese hands.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Imanol Caneyada is a Spanish-born writer and journalist who has lived in Sonora, Mexico for decades. Now a Mexican citizen, he has developed both his journalistic and literary careers in the country. His short stories and novels have earned him the Efrén Hernández National Short Story Prize (2011), the Ciudad La Paz Regional Fiction Prize (2009), and the José Fuentes Mares National Literature Prize (2015).
Litio is a literary thriller that blends suspense and psychological depth with a sharp social lens. It examines the devastating reality behind lithium exploitation in Mexico, where the richness of the land becomes a curse for those who own it. This is a story of ambition, greed, moral decay, and impunity—portrayed with striking authenticity.
Constructed as a polyphonic novel told through multiple points of view, Litio explores the moral complexity of a corrupt system where some profit at the expense of many. With a cast of characters caught—willingly or not—in that system, the novel positions the reader in the role of both victim and perpetrator, showing every layer of the conflict: ethical, social, and emotional.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Limited Series, Feature Film, TV Movie
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish
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