Following the enormous success of the reissues of Charles Portis's
first three novels -- The Dog of the South, Norwood, and Masters of
Atlantis -- comes the reissue of a fourth truly brilliant,
wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists.
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has
an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that
comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days
unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing
small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing
person situation -- whatever it takes to remain "the very picture
of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green
golfing trousers". But when Jimmy's laid-back lifestyle is
seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a
sudden wave of "hippies" (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search
of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are
unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border
existence faces a clear and present danger.
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