Demon of the Air - Couverture rigide

Levack, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312348347 ISBN 13 : 9780312348342

Editeur : Minotaur Books, 2005

Synopsis

In 1517, plagued by enigmatic visions and disturbing dreams, Aztec emperor Montezuma is also faced with a strange prophecy uttered by a would-be sacrificial victim who escapes the knife with his own suicide and requests that Yaotl, a slave to the Chief Minister, uncover the truth about the mysterious series of events. Winner of the CWA Debut Dagger Award. A first novel.

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Quatrième de couverture

Introducing a new detective to rival Didius Falco.
Mexico, 1517. The Aztec Empire.
The Emperor Montezuma rules by fear. Temples run with the blood of human sacrifice. In this brutal world a free man can sell himself into slavery. Escaping a troubled past, Yaotl has chosen to become a slave to the Chief Minister, Montezuma's unscrupulous right hand man.
Strange things are happening. The sacrificial victim Yaotl was ordered to escort has leapt to his death, uttering sinister prophecies before the priests could cut out his heart. The Emperor feels threatened. Mysterious strangers have appeared in the East. Visions disturb his dreams. His soothsayers cannot interpret them.
When the soothsayers vanish, Montezuma senses a connection with the bizarre suicide, and orders Yaotl to follow the trail - in defiance of his own master. What Yaotl uncovers will unlock nightmares from his own youth - and threaten the future of everything he knows . . .
'Gripping and always surprising … A most rewarding read' Guardian
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mexico-Tenochtitlan, in the year Twelve-House: the vast, teeming city of the Aztecs at the height of its glory. As the novel opens, the Chief Minister's trusted slave Yaotl is escorting a sacrificial victim up the steps of the Great Pyramid to celebrate the Festival of the Raising of Banners. Used to the bloodstained rites of the War-God's priests, Yaotl is unperturbed at the ritual slaughter of the so-called Flowery Death. When the victim runs amok and leaps to his death before he can be sacrified, Yaotl's only worry is how to explain it to his master. But when more bodies start to appear and the Emperor Montezuma starts asking questions about the soothsayers who have vanished from his impregnable prison, Yaotl realises he needs some answers soon. The secrets he uncovers will unlock nightmares from his own youth and threaten the future of everything he knows.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Minotaur Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312348347
• ISBN 13: 9780312348342
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible