The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.

Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]

Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the base takeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.