General Pancho and the Preacher

About the Book

Pancho Villa is in exile, improbably hiding out in a Southwestern U.S. town, recuperating from a leg wound he received during his recent incursion into American territory at Columbus, New Mexico -- just down the road a bit. During this period he has gone from a highly regarded revolutionary general to a desperado, hunted down by both the U.S. and Mexico. He’s not worried. In the saloon, he meets an American circuit rider, a preacher on horseback, who also happens to be running from lawmen. Sheriff ’s deputies want to question the parttime preacher in the killing of a rancher in Lincoln County. These two unlikely characters start drinking and spinning their stories to each other. They strike up a friendship that is to last throught the Mexican Revolution -- until they are separately assassinated down Mejico way.

About the Author

Isaac M. Flores was a writer, editor and foreign correspondent for The Associated Press for more than thirty years. He has written widely on a variety of subjects and is the author of five books. A native of the Great American Southwest, he now lives in Winter Park, Fla.