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Dos Gringos: A Norwegian and an Irishman meet in a Texas bar . . . From a true story of The Mexican Revolution
Bok av Frederick R Andresen
During the Mexican Revolution, a penniless Norwegian and a drifting Irishman meet in an El Paso bar and are hired by a Pittsburgh con-man to fix a gold mine in Mexico with parts which, they discover too late, purposely don't fit. The Norwegian needs the money to propose to his girl in Texas, and the Irishman, fresh from the bloody Easter Uprising, needs to redeem a painful guilt and find a new life. Everyone wants the mine to work or not work, each for his own reasons and the foreigners are at gunpoint to perform or not perform. The Norwegian is determined to fix the mine while the Irishman is fixed on the local women. Their mutual distrust fades in the face of guns from the warring sides and they must work together to survive and escape back to Texas. Complicating their mission is a mysterious, blacksuited man selling guns to both sides in the Mexican war, part of Germany's intrigue to keep America out of World War I-and a German and Brit are there to spy on each other. And in the end . . .