Son of a quarry foreman, Dark Cloud is mysteriously propelled by two possibly divine personages, and in his ""sheaves of years"" he'll be a student, scribe, warrior, diplomat, merchant, and finally a prisoner of a fatuous Spanish bishop-who is busily battering the natives into Christian slaves and who will have him executed for heresy. The narrator here is Dark Cloud, although he is known through his nearly six decades by many other names. as a towering tribute to the Aztec civilization, destroyed by Cortez in the early 16th century. Making capricious but expeditious use of expansive research into Aztec culture and rites, Jennings, a boisterous storyteller, has amassed hundreds of bawdy, grisly, occasionally funny, handsomely scenic details-and he offers them in a sleek, urbane, picaresque adventure.
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