Barry Gifford – Port Tropique

Revolution is simmering in the heat of battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an « intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of selfwilled failure » (New York Times). The ineffectual hero spends his days drinking and observing people in the zócalo, and occasional nights involved in an ivory-smuggling operation…