Anselmo, Reverge

New York. 1997. May 1997. Harper Collins. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0061012092. 193 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Carl D. Galian. Front cover photo courtesy of the author. . keywords: Literature America Latino Latin America Mexico. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On the shore of the great sea which is the cradle of civilization, under the shadow of towering cedars, lies the rubble of a once majestic city. The gazes of native eyes, friend and enemy, calculate the tricks of living in a hot zone of the Cold War. Strange, imponderable loves rise in a falling city, and the death gong tolls with the sounds of timeless song. The Levant. An ancient land of battle and deception. After ten years of civil war, U.S. Marines land in the chaos. Factional fighting rips the city, and the Marines hold out in the cross fire. For Cazetti, a young Intelligence man with a bad record, it is a world of the war-wise: spies and survivors, innocents and wounded. Those like Hitman Hitchins, a loose agent with a lurking in his heart; Sardine, a treacherous vamp; Philomena, a direct, endearing nun determined to save Cazetti's soul; Cercio, a playboy lieutenant; and Minovich and Davey, hanging on since Vietnam to do it all again. With enemy artillery raining down on all sides, and the perimeter lines pinned down, nothing, it seems, can save these men from the apocalyptic specter they know is coming. A dramatic, vivid story of love and war in a devious and bloody world, THE CADILLAC OF SIX-BY'S brings you into the hearts of men who lived and died by fire, in a place and time now faint in the wake of history. inventory #24354 ISBN: 0061012092.