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The Secret of Sierra Madre: The Man Who Was B. Traven

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I recommend The Secret Of The Sierra Madre / The Man Who Was B. Traven written by Will Wyatt in loo of a failed BBC documentary into the life of the clandestine author of: The Death Ship, The Bridge in the Jungle, the trilogy of novels about the Mexican revolution, but best well known for the movie based on his Treasure of the Sierre Madre.

There is a history of scholastic investigation into this mysterious non-personage. Was he chased from Germany, a pamphleteering anarchist? Was he a midwestern wobbly? ...a merchant marine? ...cowboy? ...illigitemate son of an emperor? ...hunted revolutionary on the run? ...adopted indian healer? ...extended member of the first mexican family... by marraige?

He himself shunned any attention; he said all anyone needed to know about him they could glean from what he had written, that he himself was unimportant. Though those thoughts bidden by the stories he had written were only further fleshed out by Will Wyatt's investigations. Regardless of what may or may not be certain, Will Wyatt reveals a lot about the man who called himself B. Traven. And I don't think it's giving anything away to say that while you read Wyatt you believe B. Traven could be anyman or, more importantly, ...

Fascinating read. Will hold you spellbound until the very end.

Now if I could only get my hands on the doc based on this book. I know there was one made by the BBC some years back...only it is not easy to track down.