THE COUNTRY I LIVED IN edition by Boston Teran Literature Fiction eBooks
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.....a remakable novel blending literay foction, historical intrigue and mythic West......Upton Sinclair mixed with James Carlos Blake and Richard Slotkin.
The time is 1955. The Birth of Rock and Roll, the Beat generation and social rebellion. It was also the era of Covert Operations and clandistine governmental actions. War hero John Rawbons Lourdes, grandsone of an infamous American outlaw and assassin and son of a son of a renowned agent for the Bureau of Investogation sets off on an odysseye through Texas and into Mexico to uncover one of the most foreboding true conspiracies of the time. A profound novel of social protest and the violence and trechery committed to crush it. The Country I lived In is also a moving personal story about love and loyalty. Loyalty to a woman, to one's friends, to one's nation and ultimatrly to the truth - and how all three may well be in conflict with each other.
THE COUNTRY I LIVED IN edition by Boston Teran Literature Fiction eBooks
This is the third book in the Lourdes family trilogy and features John Lourdes, son and grandson of characters from The Creed of Violence and Gardens of Grief.Set in 1955, John Lourdes is a Korean War vet who gets an urgent call from an army buddy in Laredo Texas who is in trouble.
Upon arriving John finds his friend murdered, staged to look like a suicide.
He discovers that his friend was under surveillance from a shadowy group from the CIA, suspected of receiving documents from Mexico.
It seems these documents are of a dangerous nature to the American government and they don’t mind getting their hands dirty in order to retrieve them.
John sets off to Mexico with a daughter of a friend of his fathers to track down who is behind these documents and what role his dead friend played in the matter.
The mysterious Boston Teran keeps thing moving along nicely with his usual cryptic dialogue and action set pieces (in particular a shootout in a motel and a car chase through the desert).
What comes through in these books is distrust in American foreign policy and the ruthless nature of shadowy government organisations when people get in their way
I found this book to be a brilliantly written literary thriller (a mix of James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy – high praise indeed but not inaccurate in my view) that both thrilled me and opened up my eyes to injustices carried out by those who believe they have the moral right on their side (the books is apparently based on a real conspiracy).
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THE COUNTRY I LIVED IN edition by Boston Teran Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
One of my favorite books of the last few years was The Creed of Violence, by the elusive and mysterious author, Boston Teran. Set mostly in pre-revolutionary Mexico in the early Twentieth Century, it featured two great protagonists and an engrossing, convoluted and thought-provoking story.
Now comes an excellent sequel, The Country I Lived In, set in Texas and in Mexico, and featuring John Rawbone Lourdes, the son and grandson of the two protagonists from the earlier book. It's the dawn of a new age in the United States; prosperity reigns, rock and roll has come crashing into the culture; the early glimmerings of a new civil rights movement can be seen in the South and elsewhere, and the Beats are beginning to pave the way for the Counter Culture revolution that would transform the country only a few years later.
Against that backdrop, though, powerful forces are resistant to change, fearful of a Communist menace from abroad and afraid that those who challenge the status quo here at home are weakening the country from within. Barry Goldwater has not yet suggested that extremism in the face of defense of liberty is no vice, but there are those who clearly believe this to be the case. And they are ready and willing to take whatever steps they feel are necessary to protect what they perceive to be America's best interests, whether it involves overthrowing governments abroad or stamping out internal dissent here at home.
Into this mix steps John Rawbone Lourdes, a young man made old before his time by having fought in both World War II and Korea. Now he just wants the opportunity to finally get to know the country that he has given so much to defend. "Something was missing from his life, something of purpose and destiny, to take away the quiet sadness that kept to itself inside him."
Lourdes has bought a new Packard convertible and wants nothing more than to "hit out on the road...[like] Huck on the river, Parkman on the Oregon Trail, Brando burning up miles of asphalt in The Wild Ones." Fate intervenes, though, when Lourdes gets a desperate call from an old army friend in Laredo who is in trouble and needs his help.
Sadly, Lourdes arrives only a little too late, to find that his friend has been tortured and murdered. Lourdes feels honor-bound to investigate and avenge his friend's death, even though he has no idea what sort of trouble his friend might have been in.
It soon becomes apparent that some very dark and mysterious forces are at work here, including agents of the CIA. They immediately put the squeeze on Lourdes, suggesting that he was in league with his murdered friend in illegal activities and questioning his own patriotism in spite of his long and decorated military service. But in the spirit of his father and grandfather, John Rawbone Lourdes is not a man to be intimidated or to be distracted from his self-appointed mission. He is also not a man who should be underestimated.
What follows is a scary and fascinating tale that races deep into the heart of Mexico and involves a great cast of characters, including two very gutsy and determined women. Like its predecessor, this is a book that will keep most readers up well into the night and that will keep them thinking about these characters and about the issues this book raises for a very long time to come.
I went into this book cold. I was only vaguely familiar with the name Boston Teran and had read none of his works. Bottom line I'm now a big fan, and already enjoying my third Teran novel.
THE COUNTRY I LIVED IN is a rarity - a book so good I immediately wanted to read it again. The hero is John Rawbone Lourdes, a young Texan who grew up hard. He was orphaned at nine, lied about his age and went to war at sixteen - working for Army Intelligence in France - and went on to distinguish himself in Korea. Now it's 1955, he's back in Texas, and the CIA is hot to recruit him. But he's ready for a break. All he wants to do is jump in his Packard convertible and hit the road.
But when one of his Korean War buddies calls for help - and is found dead under mysterious and disgusting circumstances - John is pulled into a web of death and deceit that takes him deep into Mexico, where he's forced to face a number of chilling truths about the country he calls home.
A prefatory note says, "This work is based on an actual conspiracy, along with certain facts, crimes and murders." If that's true, I, too, have learned some ugly things about the good old U.S.A.
THE COUNTRY I LIVED IN has all the elements of a great thriller, but what impressed me most was the depth and lyrical quality of the prose. Underlying all the intrigue, the romance and the gun-blasting violence is an examination of the human character, with many passages so poetic I'm eager to read them again.
Best of all, there's MORE to read. I've since discovered this is the third book in a cycle. THE CREED OF VIOLENCE (2009) takes place in 1910, following John's outlaw grandfather and federal agent father on a journey of self discovery during the Mexican Revolution. And GARDENS OF GRIEF (2010) finds John's father on a mission to Turkey, where Islamic fundamentalists are doing their best to exterminate the Armenians.
Boston Teran (whoever he, she, or they may be) is the author of six more novels, with another - involving the birth of the Ku Klux Klan - coming soon. I have a lot to look forward to.
Ever since God is a Bullet I have read Teran's stuff. She/He at times rises to the level of Cormac McCarthy but can't hold the intensity. Nevertheless, he-she is a great writer.
This is the third book in the Lourdes family trilogy and features John Lourdes, son and grandson of characters from The Creed of Violence and Gardens of Grief.
Set in 1955, John Lourdes is a Korean War vet who gets an urgent call from an army buddy in Laredo Texas who is in trouble.
Upon arriving John finds his friend murdered, staged to look like a suicide.
He discovers that his friend was under surveillance from a shadowy group from the CIA, suspected of receiving documents from Mexico.
It seems these documents are of a dangerous nature to the American government and they don’t mind getting their hands dirty in order to retrieve them.
John sets off to Mexico with a daughter of a friend of his fathers to track down who is behind these documents and what role his dead friend played in the matter.
The mysterious Boston Teran keeps thing moving along nicely with his usual cryptic dialogue and action set pieces (in particular a shootout in a motel and a car chase through the desert).
What comes through in these books is distrust in American foreign policy and the ruthless nature of shadowy government organisations when people get in their way
I found this book to be a brilliantly written literary thriller (a mix of James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy – high praise indeed but not inaccurate in my view) that both thrilled me and opened up my eyes to injustices carried out by those who believe they have the moral right on their side (the books is apparently based on a real conspiracy).
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