The stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and Aztecs, and for a great war that will change history forever. Fortunately, he has a recent bestseller as a guidebook to acquiring power-Machiavelli's The Prince. But most of all he finds downtrodden populations ready for revolution. He finds a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, the Spanish Inquisition, Luther's Reformation, capitalism, the miracle of the printing press, endless warmongering between the ruling monarchies, and constant threat from the Turks. Over five hundred years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe in the ships stolen from Columbus. But nobody ultimately knows what became of them. They meet local tribes, exchange skills, are taken prisoner, and get as far as Panama. An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhHįreydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out to the south.
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