En el viejo barco Hansa Sern llega Maqroll a la costa del Canal de Panamá, donde es testigo de una tragedia que se desarrolla en medio de una vegetación lujuriosa en la blanda tierra del trópico. A Maqroll le persiguen el reencuentro de un amor, el del
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships a
