The Gringo Amigo

by Gary McCarthy Narrated by Gene Engene

Overview

Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life. Michael is saved by the Mexican, Joaquin Murieta with whom he strikes up a friendship. The friendship is quite unusual and the Irishman becomes known as the Gringo Amigo. But hatred by Anglos, and the death of his family, sends Murieta on a bloody mission of vengeance that inflames the countryside. Murieta becomes the most wanted man in the state. Perhaps the only man that can save him is the loyal Gringo Amigo...

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This unpolished western from the author of Blood Brothers follows young Irishman Michael Callahan as he comes to California in the early 1850s in search of gold. Distressed by the special taxes imposed on Mexicans who stake a mining claim, Michael defends a group of them beset by vigilantes; in gratitude, they name him gringo amigo . Months later, after Michael strikes it rich but is attacked and robbed by white miners, vaquero Joaquin Murieta saves his life and recovers the gold, which he keeps for himself. Michael tries his hand at shop-keeping in Sacramento, but soon heads back to the goldfields and his unlikely friendship with Murieta. When Murieta comes under attack and his wife is killed, the Mexican erupt in a vengeful rampage. Stalwart Michael, of course, tries to serve justice. McCarthy introduces many narrative possibilities here but fails to develop them; his players are caricatured and the tone seems aimed at a teenage audience. (Sept.)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171439415
Publisher:	Books in Motion
Publication date:	04/15/2009
Edition description:	Unabridged

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