The Fifth Ace
Overview
Kearn Thode mounted his pinto and rode out of the courtyard of the Baggott Hotel and down the Calle Rivera under a seething tropic sun. Limasito's principal street was well-nigh deserted in the lethargy of the noon-day siesta, but the flower-market was a riotous blaze of color in the glistening white plaza, from which radiated broad vistas of fantastically painted adobe and soberer concrete, ending in a soft green blur. The young petroleum engineer had pictured a ten-year-old boom town in the Mexican oil belt as a wilderness of rough shacks and board sidewalks, with possibly a dancehall or two and an open-air movie as the only attractions, and the thriving little city had proved a welcome surprise.
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- ISBN-13: 9781532721311
- ISBN-10: 1532721315
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: July 2016
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 140
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