Aztec Rage
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
In the magnificent Aztec empire, broken under the Spanish boot, valiant men and fearless women rise to battle their brutal overlords.
Don Juan de Zavala, the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain, is gifted with weapons and horses—and women. But as a warrior-priest leads an Aztec revolt and Napoleon's armies invade Spain, Zavala can no longer stay neutral, especially when a shocking secret from his lurid past threatens the very existence of the Spanish Crown.
Swept from glittering Mexico City to snake-infested jungles, lost Mayan civilizations, and the torture chambers of the Inquisition, Zavala navigates the bloodiest revolution in New Spain's history. Everybody wants Don Juan de Zavala...and many want him dead:
Isabella, instinctively wicked and sinfully seductive. Father Hidalgo, a man of God taking up the sword to lead a revolution he cannot control. Raquel, attractive and erudite, challenging Juan with her mind—and body. Marina, a pure-blood Aztec, knowing too well the oppressor's destruction of her people.
The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestseller Aztec continues in Aztec Rage, a thrilling novel of historical fiction.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gleason and Podrug continue the late Jennings's Aztec series with this fast-paced, absorbing fourth volume, featuring Spanish-born Don Juan de Zavala, who comes of age in colonial Mexico in 1808. Just as Don Juan expects to claim his inheritance, his dying uncle accuses him of illegitimate, half-Aztec origins, and Don Juan is then unjustly pegged as his uncle's murderer. Prudently hitting the road, Don Juan meets a charming, erudite rogue named Carlos, and together they head for Veracruz. When Carlos is murdered by a Mayan mob, Don Juan returns under Carlos's name to a Spain now erupting in revolt against Napoleon. He joins the resistance there before returning to Mexico. Back in the New World, where he's determined to take back his inheritance, he throws in his lot with rebels agitating to reclaim their independence from Spain. Don Juan has his consciousness raised about European racism towards the "indio" population (especially by curvaceous Aztec babe Marina), and the authors paint a vivid picture of the early stages of the bloody war of independence. Just as preoccupied with swashbuckling and womanizing as its predecessors, this latest Aztec novel is likely to be irresistible to fans of the series.
