The tattooed soldier

Description

A Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by a death squad spots one of the killers playing chess in a park in Los Angeles and plots revenge. The denouement comes during one of the city's riots

Description

In a shabby apartment in downtown L.A., Antonio Bernal is packing his worldly possessions into a Hefty trash bag. It is the final defeat in a series of blows that drove him from Guatemala after a death squad murdered his wife and child, a boy of two. In MacArthur Park, not far from Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria is playing chess. As Longoria considers his next move, his mind is empty of memories, especially the worst memory of all: the sound children make when they die, a terrible but necessary part of his patriotic duty as a member of the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. The Tattooed Soldier is the story of these two haunted men and the tragic intersection of their lives.

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Other Editions

• The tattooed soldierDelphinium Books1998-01-01
• The tattooed soldierPenguin Books1998-01-01
• Tattooed SoldierSerpent's Tail Limited2000-01-01
• Tattooed SoldierPicador2014-01-01
• Tattooed SoldierPicador2014-01-01