A magnificent novel-hoax...Carlos Fuentes, working here exclusively on the basis of authentic historical documents, creates an amazing “realistic phantasmagoria”. The romance of struggle, masculinity and war - and delicious, stunning “local color”. This is the background of the story of the brilliant American author “ horror literature" and the famous journalist Ambrose Bierce, who decided to take part in the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s - and disappeared without a trace in Mexico. What happened there? In essence, this is not so important to the reader. Because in Fuentes' novel, history goes into the stage of myth - and EVERYTHING becomes possible...