Aztec: Shadow of the Lords - Simon Levack

Mexico, 1517. The Aztec capital is awash with fear and rumours. A strange figure has been seen running through the streets. A being with the face of a snake, his body covered with glittering green plumage: Quetzalcoatl - the Feathered Serpent. Is it an omen? Or is it the god himself, come to warn of impending disaster?

Former priest Yaotl has more urgent matters to worry about than omens and portents: engaged in a desperate search for his son as both of them run from his ruthless master, the Chief Minister, Lord Feathered-in-Black. If the Chief Minister catches him, Yaoti can expect a grisly fate.

Attempting to escape his master's bloodthirsty warriors, Yaotl stumbles upon a dismembered, unrecognisable corpse. As he pieces together the clues to who the dead man was and how he died, Yaotl finds himself drawn into an affair of greed, jealousy and lust among the ancient, secretive society of the feather workers, the Aztecs' foremost craftsmen. And as he is to discover, the answers to those clues will provide the key to the search for his son.

ISBN: 9780743468152

Pages: 405

Paperback

Pocket Books, 2006

Fair to good condition; Cover scuffed/shelf-rubbed

B102