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Book Review By Dwight Broussard
A Tourist in the Yucatan by James McNay Brumfield

A young american couple unwittingly become entangled in Mexican underworld. Great settings in the jungles and lost cities of the yucatan penninsula. This woiuld make a good movie!


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - Dry-cynical - very upbeat -
How difficult to spot villain? - Challenging
Time/era of story:
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
The crook is.... - criminal's rise in a crime organization
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets:
Is MAIN CHARACTER an EVIL criminal? Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - drug dealers

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
Motive of antagonist - money/treasure
The antagonists are: - foreign organized crime
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - Mexico
Jungles? Yes
Jungles - lost city
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to torture
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts
Unusual forms of death - poisoning - impaled - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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