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Given the most recent round of oil wars in Libya, Creed of Violence makes for some timely reading. Oh, it's another time and place (Mexico, 1910), but the reader will find some remarkable parallels. Controlling the oil is what's key here, and Teran does a good job bringing this bit of obscure history to light. At one point, late in the novel, Rawbone tells his son (though he doesn't yet know the man, and Federal agent he's been traveling with, is his son), that there "are two governments now...T
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This book ticks a lot of boxes for me: fiction based on historical events that has elements of the crime, adventure, and war genres, a very dark and dry humor sufising the telling, a distinctive writing style, excellent period detail and color -- and yet it never really clicked for me. The story revolves around the start of the Mexican revolution in 1910, and involves gunrunning between Texas and Mexican rebels, American meddling, and oil interests.
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John Lourdes grew up from nothing in the street ...more
Feb 20, 2014
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
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Sep 08, 2018
Rebecca
marked it as to-read
