Publisher's Synopsis
The setting is Mexico, between 1940 and 1976.
The book's anti-hero, Martin Gray, had fled to Mexico from San Francisco when his life was threatened. He has remained for 35 years, caught up in the beauty of the country's culture, landscape, food, art, and history, and by his involvement with the CIA and with Mexico's never-changing entanglement with American foreign policy and designs.
Sub-titled, "An odyssey of duplicity," THE GAME is, I have been told, cast in the mold of novels by LeCarre and Graham Greene. Whether I would be immodest enough to say that is so, I have tried to limn what appears to be a spy story, but is actually a literary journey into what happens when individual choices and individual sorrows overlap.
Caught by circumstance, Gray is an agent who comes to see that almost no one in his world tells the truth - neither the higher-ups nor the grunts. While the novel encompasses the world of spy-craft, it is essentially a story of one man's troubling journey through life.
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Among the key characteristics of the novel are the various tales of Mexican history, which allowed me to paint scenes of musical, gustatory, and artistic beauty. Some of those who have read the novel say that the odors of the streets can be sensed as they read it.
