THE BULLET SWALLOWER
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
(Hodder &Stoughton, $37.99)
In the 1820s, great-great grandfather Alferez Antonio Sonoro is a Spanish-bred aristocrat who exploits the indigenous Mexican peons in his search for gold. In the process, he sadistically kills hundreds of them. In the 1890s, grandfather Antonio Sonoro has no aristocratic connections left and is reduced to cultivating arid land where few
