Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service Author:Mario Vargas Llosa Pantaleon Pantoja, an Army captain who has been ordered to organize a special brigade of women to service the lonely troops in the jungle, meets with all too much success and is forced to disband the brigade he has created. Nearly losing his wife and mother in the process, he battles against religious zealots, the female recruits and the Army th... more »at gave him the mission in the first place.
Through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, the author combines political satire with humor, morality with uproarious sexuality.« less