Set in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, the novel is part Western (the main character, Ben Tyler, is an Arizona cowboy) and part noir (he's in on an arms-smuggling scam gone bad).
The novel mixes western and noir themes over the backdrop of the Spanish-American war.
Ben Tyler has never visited the American South West.
The man is selling ice cream from a truck.
There are three cows in a barn.
A man walks outside.
Friends watching television inside.
Every generation is aggressive.
Tohoku eventually was opened to broader settlement.