This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army--to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.
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October 1978 : UK Hardback
Title: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
ISBN: 0-224-01624-5 / 978-0-224-01624-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
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Title: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: A Novel
Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
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