The Diezmo
By: Rick Bass.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction.; Prisoners of war -- Fiction.; Torture victims -- Fiction.; Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction.; Texas -- History -- To 1846 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A novel based on the Mier Expedition follows two young men on an expedition to the Mexican border, during which they are captured in a raid on the Mexican village of Mier and end up as pawns in an international chess game that will determine the fate of Texas.