The Fifth Ace - 9781532721311

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.

• • Author: Isabel Ostrander
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jul 15, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 140 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1532721315
• • ISBN-13: 9781532721311