Maria La Maga: The Magician

We open in a flash of bullets and smoke: a wild-eyed, bearded soldier with a cigar clenched in his teeth bursts through the jungle screaming, "¡PATRIA O MUERTE!" ("Fatherland or death!") Meet CHE GUEVARA, the myth in the making - the Twentieth Century's most iconic symbol of revolution. He leads a ragtag band of idealistic rebels through the Cuban mountains against Batista's military. Among them are the most unlikely trio ever to grace a battlefield. Flashback: Two months earlier. 19-year-old MARIA SILVANO, half-Spanish, half-Italian, fully feral, fluent in 4 languages - sails up the Northern Pacific with a mysterious shipment. When her ship breaks down off the Baja coast, she winds up in a Tijuana bar brawl that sets her on a collision course with CHARLIE CANTRELE, a swaggering one-eyed American dropout and his whip-smart, burrito-loving, wise-cracking partner, BERNIE GUSTO. What follows is a gonzo road trip across the Southwest and deep into the heart of a revolution. From a wild escape from a Tijuana beer brawl to hobnobbing with future legends HOBIE ALTER, BRUCE BROWN, and BRIAN WILSON.

Pagina's: 113, Paperback, Independently published