[1] The Mexican writer and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga described his work as "A pretty fucking powerful look at the relationship between life and death".

His works have been translated into several languages including English,[3] French,[4] Portuguese, Swedish, Italian,[5] Rumanian[6] and Russian.

[7] In the Columbia Guide to the Latin America Novel... (2007), Raymond Williams wrote about his novel Prince of death: "Is a vast historical work set in nineteenth century".

[12] In 2014, Planeta Group published "Ashes of Condor", an extensive report about terrorism in Latin America.

[13] In 2016, Mario Vargas Llosa put the book Ashes of Condor on the short list of his Hispano-American Bienal,[14] and Casa de las Américas granted it with the José María Arguedas Award.