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  • The Serpent and the Eagle

  • Tenochtitlan Trilogy
  • By: Edward Rickford
  • Narrated by: Trevor Bowling
  • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The Serpent and the Eagle

By: Edward Rickford
Narrated by: Trevor Bowling
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Summary

Something has come from beyond the Great Mists....

Tenochtitlan, 1519. Strange, pale-skinned people have arrived on the coast of the One World. They hail from a far away land called Spain and fight for the mysterious Hernando Cortés. To confront Cortés’ army would be dangerous, but inaction may be even more dangerous.

The Mexica are the most powerful people in all the One World and regard the uncouth interlopers with a mixture of curiosity and distrust. Keen to discover their intentions, the Mexica send an official envoy to the coast. What they learn is most troubling. The Spanish possess weapons that have no equal...and they may have designs on Tenochtitlan.

The conflict that follows will tear an entire region asunder and give birth to an empire of globe-spanning proportions. Combining the rich world-building of Sharon Kay Penman with the gripping battles sequences of Conn Iggulden, this award-winning novel draws upon modern scholarship to recount an event still unique today: the epic collision of two civilizations separated for millennia.

©2019 Edward Rickford (P)2021 Edward Rickford
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Critic reviews

"The epic encounter of Aztecs and conquistadors has attracted - and tested - many a novelist. The challenge is one of staying believably true to the historical tale and its Mexican setting, while at the same time offering the reader some surprises. Rickford rises to that challenge with considerable aplomb, balancing evidence with imagination, research with flights of fiction. Fueled by a complex narrative tension and a deft deployment of detail, The Serpent and the Eagle is unpredictable in all the right ways." (Matthew Restall, Professor of Colonial Latin American history, Director of Latin American studies at Penn State, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés)

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