The Right Hand of the Sun

by Anita Mason (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $9.37

  'This is the fifth world.' The emperor opens his fingers. The feather drifts to the floor. 'Every day we are afraid that it will end.'

  
  

  1519. Shipwrecked on an unnamed coast a Spaniard, who in ten years has learned to live like the natives and worship their gods, is suddenly faced with a choice. Mysterious ships have come. A message is brought to him. Does he want to - can he - go back to the world he left?

  Geronimo has no idea, yet, what purpose is forming in the mind of the expedition's commander. Hernan Cortes will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions and thwart his enemies - and he has heard rumours of an empire of gold.

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.44

  Shipwrecked on the cost of Aztec Mexico, Geronimo is one of only two men to survive the sinking of their great Spanish galleon. Taken in by the winic Indians, Geronimo learns that if he is to survive, he must abandon his European customs and language and learn to live as the Indians do. Ten years pass, and one day a man comes with a bag of dazzling jewels and buys Geronimo's freedom from his winic master. Hernan Cortes calls Geronimo back from the jungle to his new exploration fleet waiting nearby. Charismatic, plotting and seductive, Cortes quickly understands the value of having Geronimo in his inner circle as a translator who can help facilitate his vision of plunder, religious conversion and conquest of these 'primitive peoples'. Geronimo understands too late that he now has no choice but to betray the very people who saved his life and taught him about the beauty of living. What follows is two-stranded tale: at once an action-packed, lush, and lyrical story of political manipulation, destruction, passionate love - and the end of one of the greatest empires on earth.