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The current installment of Bass's Diezmo takes place after a band of
renegade Texans has been defeated in an invasion of Mexico and taken prisoner
to face the diezmo -- a punishment in which one of every ten in their company
will be chosen by lottery for execution. Ehrhardt, Shann Ray, Krystn Lee Yang , and an excerpt from
a first novel-in-progress by noted young playwright and journalist Chandler
Burr, whose latest book on the mystery of the sense of smell, The Emperor of
Scent, was a recent bestseller.
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