Espanjankielinen alkuteos: El jardin devastado. The Infidel invasion unleashes a celebration of demons in Iraq. One of them, sickened by human vileness, tours the battlefield beside a woman who searches for her loved ones, confident that they survived the daily massacres and mutilations. A hopeless man, reminiscing on his lost loves concludes men and women are enemies from the moment of conception. We besiege, trick, betray, hurt, infect, wound, torture, destruct, and abandon one another. We wait for the next in line. And then, there is always revenge. In a literary and romantic biography of sorts, the storyteller grants the reader access to his ideology and beliefs in the midst of a world that vanishes in the cruelty of war. A Mexican in Iraq, Mexico, and the United States exposes his beliefs in the midst of a world that vanishes in the cruelty of the war in Iraq, as he experiences exile and explores the lives of two women, one Mexican and the other Iraqi.