PERIL AND INTRIGUE UNDER EL SEXTO SOL

About the Book

A MODERN-DAY STORY FILLED WITH SUSPENSE, HUMOR AND ROMANCE. PERIL AND INTRIGUE UNDER EL SEXTO SOL follows San Antonio, Texas Professor Tony Carranza and his cadre of students to Mexico City and smack into the final days of the presidential campaign of popular, reformist, indigenous candidate, Moctezuma Chacón. Suspecting that the death of one of Mexico’s ex-representatives to the United Nations was an assassination, Professor Carranza becomes a target by unknown assailants. Los Angeles Times reporter, Stacey Montemayor, arrives on the scene to cover the campaign and soon becomes embroiled along with Professor Carranza, the students, and a host of other patriotic Mexican activists seeking justice and democracy at all costs.

About the Author

LORENZO CANO is a writer and consultant on community development and Mexican American affairs. A veteran of the Chicano Movement, he has organized countless conferences, seminars, and community actions on behalf of the Mexican American and Latino communities. Cano taught courses in Mexican American Studies and led numerous student educational trips throughout Mexico while he was the Associate Director at the University of Houston’s Center for Mexican American Studies. Originally from Corpus Christi, Texas, he currently lives with his wife, Grisel, near Houston, in Onalaska, Texas.