The Bandolero, or A Marriage among the Mountains

4 hrs. 51 min.

Author Thomas Mayne Reid

Narrator A.V. Yerokhin

Description

War: while the Americans take over the territory of Mexico and head toward its capital, they also occupy the rest of the cities—some with heavy, bloody battles, others without any losses at all. Precisely the kind of “peace-loving” city—along with its surroundings—with the notable name of La Puebla de los Angeles, that is, the City of Angels, is where the action of Main Read’s novel "The Bandolero" takes place. By the way, for those who speak “Yo no abla espanol,” it may be useful to know that bandoleros are nothing other than robbers.

So, in the third-largest city in Mexico, the main part of whose population consists of priests, vagabonds-pelados, thieves, and impudent picaronas—fraudulent swindlers—an American detachment of three thousand men entered. Soon they will feel what it’s like when you meet people with honey on their lips—but злo in their hearts. Still, some of these soldiers were lucky: they received wounds that did not heal for a long time—heart wounds inflicted by sparkling, feminine eyes…
Together with the book’s heroes, the reader can plunge into the harsh yet enthralling and beautiful world of mid-19th-century Mexico…