The Lawless Roads

The author describes his travels through Mexico during 1937 and 1938 and his impressions of its changing culture, detailing his odyssey through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, a region devastated by the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles and an experience that inspired the setting and theme for his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.