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Book Review By TRACY MENDOZA
A Tourist in the Yucatan by James McNay Brumfield

A MAN LOSES HIS WIFE WHILE TRAVELING IN MEXICO, MAIN PLOT IS HIM DISCOVERING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. GREAT SETTINGS IN ANCIENT MAYAN CITIES! SUB PLOTS INCLUDE DISCOVERY OF MAYAN TOMB AND A CONSPERICY EMMINATING OUT OF WASHINGTON DC. THIS IS LIKE TO SEPERATE STORIES THAT DON'T COME TOGETHER UNTIL THE FINAL PAGES. A GOOD MIX OF SEX AND VIOLENCE. NOT THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL, BUT A FUN SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL!!


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - Dry-cynical - very upbeat -
How difficult to spot villain? - Moderately 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:
Who's the terrorist enemy here?
Is MAIN CHARACTER an EVIL criminal? Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - drug dealers - finding a known killer

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 60's-90's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
The antagonists are: - foreign organized crime
How sensitive is this character?
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 - resort/hotel - fancy mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - 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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