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The main action of ''Mexico'' takes place over a three-day period in the fictional city of Toledo in 1961. The occasion is the annual Bullfighting festival, at which two Matador s – one an acclaimed hero of the sport, the other a scrapping contender – are prepared to fight to the death for fame and glory.

Through the memories of the book's narrator, an American journalist of Spanish, Indian and Mexican descent, Michener provides plenty of historical background, including a depiction of the gruesome Human Sacrifice that took place hundreds of years before on the city's periphery. But this is more a story about bullfighting than Mexican culture or history. The reader follows the bulls from their breeding to their "sorting" to the pagentry and spectacle of the Bullring , where picadors and banderilleros prepare the bull for the entrance of the matador with his red cape. The author creates one of his most memorable characters in the person of bullfighting "critic" Leon Ledesma, a flamboyant sportswriter who elevates bullfighting into an art form through his grandiloquent essays.