Father Hidalgo…Ĭan a man of God take up the sword and lead a people by the hundreds of thousands into a bloody revolution he cannot control?Raquel…Īttractive, sensuous, erudite, she challenges Juan with her mind and her body. Instinctively wicked, sinfully seductive. Zavala will be swept from glittering Mexico City to snake and croc infested jungles, to lost Mayan civilizations to the torture chambers of the Inquisition, to beautiful Barcelona and the bloody carnage of Napoleon s war in Spain, to the bloodiest and most spectacular of New Spain s colonial Mexico revolutions. Especially if a shocking secret from Zavala s lurid past is exposed a secret so lethal to the Spanish Crown it threatens their very existence.
No one, including Juan de Zavala could stay neutral. As a warrior priest leads an Aztec revolt, across the ocean in Spain courageous people battle Napoleon’s invading armies. Now valiant men and fearless women rise and battle their brutal overlords. But the magnificent Aztec empire, its grand cities and riches lay broken under the Spanish boot… Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain as gifted with weapons and horses as he was with women. Born in Buena Vista, Virginia in 1928, Jennings passed away in 1999 in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, leaving behind a rich legacy of historical fiction and outlines for new novels.The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the 1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues… Los Angeles Times About the Author Gary Jennings was known for the rigorous and intensive research behind his books, which often included hazardous travel-exploring every corner of Mexico for his Aztec novels, retracing the numerous wanderings of Marco Polo for The Journeyers, joining nine different circuses for Spangle, and roaming the Balkans for Raptor. The New York Times Anyone who reads, anyone who still lusts for adventure or that book you cant put down, will glory in Aztec. Review Quotes A dazzling and hypnotic historical novel. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves-a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilizations rise and fall. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernn Corts and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire.
Book Synopsis Gary Jenningss Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America.
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