Aztec Fire
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues
Juan Rios comes from a long line of Aztec warriors. Slave to a Spanish gun-maker, he becomes the finest gunsmith and sharpshooter in colonial Mexico. But Juan has a secret life as the revolucion's #1 gun-runner.
Juan falls for the beautiful Maria, a beautiful writer and fearless revolucionaria whose dream of freedom is a liability for them both. The hard-drinking, womanizing, con-man Luis becomes their last hope against the rack, the stake, and the blood-stained torture dungeons of the Inquisition.
Aztec Fire sweeps readers on a perilous journey from the fabled ruins of ancient Tula to the slave-labor galleons of "the Manila Run" to a South Seas jungle island teeming with crocodiles, snakes, and blood-crazed cannibals. When Juan and his friends finally reach home, they find their country in flames, struggling against its hated Spanish oppressors.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The late popular adventure novelist Jennings's Aztec series is revived by editor Gleason and writer Podrug in this lengthy, meandering novel. Mexico is under repressive Spanish rule, and rebellion smolders everywhere. Juan Rios, a Toltec Indian boy taught to make gunpowder and repair weapons for the rebels, is captured by soldiers and sold to a loyalist gunsmith. Juan toils for the Spanish while secretly supplying the rebels with guns and ammo until he eventually escapes with his rebel propagandist love, Maria. They are separated during their flight, and Juan is launched on a preposterous two-year round-the-world voyage of cliffhanging escapes. He eventually returns to Mexico and becomes involved in a treacherous plot as he searches for Maria. Gory battles, sex and a vivid setting add some fun to this overlong, poorly executed tale.
