Jan Reid, Sins of the Younger Sons

Jan Reid's books include his novel Comanche Sundown, his biography of Texas governor Ann Richards Let the People In, his memoir of Mexico, The Bullet Meant For Me, and The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock. Making his home in Austin, Reid has been a leading contributor to Texas Monthly for over forty years.

 

About Sins of the Younger Sons:

Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga. Luke hails from a Basque ancestry that came with the Spanish empire to Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and, seventy-five years ago, to a Texas ranch. Luke's orders are to sell guns to the ETA and lure Peru into a trap. Instead he falls in love with Peru's estranged wife, Ysolina, who lives in Paris and pursues a doctorate about an Inquisition-driven witchcraft frenzy in her native land. From the day they cross the border into the Basque Pyrenees, their love affair on the run conveys the beauty, sensuality, exoticism, and violence of an ancient homeland cut in two by Spain and France. Their trajectory puts Luke, Ysolina, and Peru on a collision course with each other and the famed American architect Frank Gehry, whose construction of a Guggenheim art museum seeks to transform the Basque city of Bilbao, a decrepit industrial backwater haunted by the Spanish Civil War--and a hotbed of ETA extremism. 

 

Event date: 
Friday, July 21, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Event address: 
306 Pearl Parkway
Suite 106
San Antonio, TX 78215
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ISBN: 9780875654287
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Published: Texas Christian University Press - June 7th, 2017

Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga.  Luke hails from a Basque ancestry that came with the Spanish empire to Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and, seventy-five years ago, to a Texas ranch.  Neighbors consider the Burgoas Mexican immigrants and exiles of th


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