Maria La Maga: Maria The Magician

By Carl William Arrechea

We open in a flash of bullets and smoke: a wild-eyed, bearded soldier with a cigar clenched in his teeth bursts through the jungle screaming, " PATRIA O MUERTE " ("Fatherland or death ") Meet CHE GUEVARA, the myth in the making - the Twentieth Century's most iconic symbol of revolution. He leads a ragtag band of idealistic rebels through the Cuban mountains against Batista's military. Among them are the most unlikely trio ever to grace a battlefield.
Flashback: Two months earlier. 19-year-old MARIA SILVANO, half-Spanish, half-Italian, fully feral, fluent in 4 languages - sails up the Northern Pacific with a mysterious shipment. When her ship breaks down off the Baja coast, she winds up in a Tijuana bar brawl that sets her on a collision course with CHARLIE CANTRELE, a swaggering one-eyed American dropout and his whip-smart, burrito-loving, wise-cracking partner, BERNIE GUSTO. What follows is a gonzo road trip across the Southwest and deep into the heart of a revolution. From a wild escape from a Tijuana beer brawl to hobnobbing with future legends HOBIE ALTER, BRUCE BROWN, and BRIAN WILSON.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXP3LNYY
• ISBN13: 9798257795091
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"