Jack Duran's search for his missing brother in Mexico leads him and his two best friends to sunken treasure, gorgeous women, and a nightmarish sea creature called El Diablo Blanco.
Local Color
Jack finds a seedy biker-bar blasting music ''like Mexican
surf-rock...Beach Boys gone Latino on speed.''
Bodily Trauma
Jack leaves said bar with ''Yanqui Go Home'' carved into his back.
Lowdown
An alliterative, luridly readable pastiche of Crichton, Lovecraft, Jules
Verne, and Robinson Crusoe.
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