Status Updates From Skull Duggery (Gideon Olive...

He had seen the Zapotec reliefs embedded in the white stuccoed wall surrounding the church plaza, but he hadn't realized that the church itself had been built on top of a destroyed Zapotec temple. It was as perfect and example as he'd ever seen of the Spanish colonial practice of demolishing a native temple and using its ruins as the foundation for a Catholic Church.

"It's amazing, Uncle Tony's hardly changed at all - well, a little grayer, a little heavier - a lot heavier - but the same guy's still inside, only even more so: cocky, loud, overbearing, self-centered, pretty nasty sometimes-"
"A real charmer, huh?"

He made a hopeless, harassed gesture with both hands and Gideon suddenly realized what he reminded him of. With his round but pointy-chinned, mobile face and gleaming, bulgy eyes, he was like a Mexican Peter Lorre. Peter Lorre in Casablanca, at his squirrely, anxed-ridden best.