Gimiendo Hernandez Quinto, a gigantic Mexicanwho once rode with Pancho Villa, and his beautiful Eurasian sidekick, Mountain of Virtue, fight the invading Japanese and look into the murder of an ambulance driver among the eccentrics who inhabit the foreign compound in their Chinese city. First published in 1942 and, though set in China, based on the author’s experiences in the Spanish Civil War.