Government: A Novel

Government is the first installment of B. Traven’s legendary Jungle Novels, a series of six books detailing the oppression and subsequent uprising of the Mexican Revolution.

Don Gabriel arrives in a remote village as the embodiment of the government, a minor bureaucrat assigned to oversee an isolated outpost at the edge of the Mexican Revolution. His task is brutal and routine. He organizes the capture and transport of Indigenous villagers to forced labor on mahogany plantations owned by for...