| Title | : | The Diezmo |
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| Author | : | Rick Bass |
| Release | : | 2009-04-03 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | The Diezmo | Rick Bass |
| Author Rick Bass has won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry and PEN/Nelson Algren Awards for his short fiction. With The Diezmo he crafts a stirring novel that sheds light on an extraordinary but little-known episode of Texas history. When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo-a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed. |
