About the book: 2010 / A magnificent novel-hoax...Carlos Fuentes, working here exclusively on the basis of authentic historical documents, creates an amazing “realistic phantasmagoria.” Romance of struggle, masculinity and wars - and delicious, stunning “local color”. This is the background of the story of the brilliant American author of “horror literature” and 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 passes into the stage of myth - and ANYTHING becomes possible…