Prolific writer, José Angel Gutiérrez has done it again with One Mexico/Un México. This is his second trilogy, still based on more speculative history fiction. He first put out a speculative history fiction set of novels in his first trilogy. His narrative went from the Chicano Movement of the 1960s in Volume 1, Dystopia to Derailments: Gringo Politics in the Building of Aztlán, to the details of a guerrilla-like war with the United States in Volume II, Redemption and Retribution: Aztlán Begins Again. Then, in Volume III, Aztlán: A Nation Within a Nation, he narrates the US surrender of all the western states and lands which had been part of the Louisiana Purchase, the Texas Republic of 1845, and the Gadsden Purchase of 1863.
In this first novel of the 2nd trilogy, he wages war on México which he calls the Other Mexico because it does not support the new Republic of Aztlán, in fact, it opposes it. It is full of intrigue, violence, some romance, and plenty of daily action by Aztlan’s ground troops with help from some groups like the Normalistas, college-age students studying to become rural teachers in the country, all invading México.