The Mexican gardeners frequently harvest tomatillos, a staple of their cuisine, from their plots.

The player controls the eponymous Pedro, a Mexican gardener, and the object of the game is to protect Pedro's plants from the various animals-such as ants and rats-that try to eat them.

Their polo shirts and pulled-back hair and Top-Siders set the tone of quiet prosperity, as do their occasional references to their Mexican gardeners and housekeepers back home.

The only thing that will be left will be the rich and Mexican gardeners.

So about a week ago, I went back to the Bronx to learn the secrets of tomalilloes from the Mexican gardeners growing salsa in the valleys between the skyscrapers.

He takes shelter with, and goes to work for, the Mexican gardeners who find him and they help him investigate who is trying to kill him and why.

There are several sidetracks from the central story, involving an Egyptian psychiatrist, a Mexican gardener, a private eye and a dog.

A Mexican gardener was raking the lawns of the house on the opposite side of Paseo Delicias.