ASIN: B00C1C2O8Q
Publisher: S.R.Wilsher
Pages: 206
On an odyssey to join the revolution in Cuba - ten years after it ended - a gang of brutal jungle bandits see television for the first time. Their leader, Father Gerard Limerick falls in love with a beautiful actress, Magdalena. Recovering after being wounded in a battle with the army, he becomes convinced he’s been resurrected in order to save her from the soap opera’s evil Senor Gonzales.To indulge his quixotic delusion, the bandits travel to a film location deep in the jungle, holding the cast and crew hostage while they await the arrival of the actor playing Senor Gonzales.Meanwhile, Limerick’s disenchanted son Rico, wrestling with his confusion in God, Karl Marx and Robin Hood, yearns for a life beyond this picaresque absurdity. Unable to be with a prostitute he loved, or to save a farmer’s wife from the men, Rico becomes desperate to save Magdalena from his family of psychotic ...
