TOM MIX AND PANCHO VILLA: A Romance of the Mexican Revolution

THESE REVIEWS SAY IT ALL:

“An absolutely smashing flight of adventurous imagination, with three remarkable and brilliantly drawn women.” — Edward Keyes, Gannett Newspapers

“A Grade-A book that has just about everything – and all of it right. Picture George S. Patton, stuck on the Mexican border spoiling for any sort of military action to justify the family tradition. How would he respond to an American kid ‘colonel’ in a rag-tag Mexican revolutionary army? A rich, evocative book.” – Shirley Peterson, Philadelphia Enquirer

"Move over, Butch and Sundance, it's not that I love you both less, just that I've come to love Pancho and Tom more. A high-stepping, swashbuckling romance ... Who among us has not wished he'd grown up as romantically as Mix does here?" — New York Times Book Review

“Clifford Irving has the Merlin touch. [He] has managed to transform fact into raucous, galloping fiction ... [an] epic tale, lined with strong, visual prose.” — Sheldon Greene, San Francisco Chronicle

"Fabulous, big, rawboned wild-blooded adventure tale that gives the sights and sounds and smells of a turn-of-the-century world real enough to touch. Clifford Irving has written a novel to make any writer proud and many readers grateful." -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner

“The work of a man at the height of his creative powers, a self-assured, masterly novel.” — Kelly Fero, Milwaukee Outlook

“Intelligently conceived, rapidly paced, attidudinally wry, and keeps its many characters, details, and events working in harmony. Tom Mix is presented here as savvy enough to be a well-read descendant of Huck Finn. Through literately presented narrative and dialogue, Irving shows that authenticity of effect is possible by way of standard English.” — James Hoggard, Dallas Times Herald

“[Tom Mix's] exploits - on the battlefield, behind the lines, in bed - are told with riveting skill.” — Chicago Tribune

“Clifford Irving takes his place among the giants of contemporary literature, dazzling us all with this robust, rousing, rip-roaring work of art..” — Ernest Lehman, author of THE SOUND OF MUSIC screenplay

“A wonderful tale, rollicking and ribald, by a marvelous story-teller.” –- Michael McGill, Houston Chronicle

“This novel is an absolute blast! It is (in essence) built on fact, but it is the novelist’s amazing imagination that adds the spice to this marvelous stew, A whoppingly good tale.” – Susan Bernhardt, Monterey Peninsula Herald

“Unflaggingly exciting, fast-paced and sumptuous.” — Library Journal

“Grand entertainment, full of a wit, charm and zest that offset the cruelties of war without trying to diminish them.” — Publisher’s Weekly

“This strikes me as a major accomplishment. The people are alive in all the aspects: brutal and bawdy, but understandable and sympathetic. This man can write. He livens his tale of revolution with romance, yet with not an ounce of treacle. My guess is that a lot of readers are doing to have a marvelous time.” — Hollis Alpert, author of The Barrymores

“The most entertaining adventure I’ve read in years. It’s sui generis.” — Dwight MacDonald

“Forgive this usually austere reviewer, but this robust novel of love, adventure and revolution captures the Western flavor of Zane Grey, the humour and folklore of Mark Twain and the wisdom of the Dalai Lama. An altogether extraordinary achievement.” — Jonathan Stearns, London Observer

“A startlingly good novel.” — Kevin Harrigan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“An adventure of epic scope and excitement. Irving’s novel enhances history with the heroic dimension of myth.” — Don Allen, Denver Post

“Clifford Irving has written some kind of fabulous novel, a big rawboned wild-blooded adventure tale that gives the sights and sounds and smells of a turn-of-the-century world real enough to touch, yet so exotic and out of reach as to seem surreal and magical. A novel to make any writer proud and many readers grateful.” — Tom Nolan, Los Angeles Herald-E