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Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artefacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation. However, Jimmy's laid back lifestyle is being seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise whose particular fascination with Jimmy is a mystery to him. Add to this a sudden wave of "hippies" (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, archaeologists unearthing (illegally) the Mayan tombs, and Louise and her bizarre husband's quests for UFO landing sites, and Jimmy's simple existence is facing a clear and present danger.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Gringos
• Author: Charles Portis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780715640982
• ISBN: 0715640984
• ID: 04399932
• Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 139 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. January 2011

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