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Capitan Cristobal de Varga
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conquest
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exciting fiction
fantasy fiction
Fiction
freed African slave
Golden city
historical fantasy
Incan mythology
Language_English
magic
New World conquests
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pacey fiction
Peru
Price_€20 to €50
princess
PS=Forthcoming
redemption
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Product details
- ISBN 9781803416038
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Capitán Cristóbal de Varga’s drive for glory and gold in 1538 Peru leads him and his army of conquistadors into a New World that refuses to be conquered. He is a man torn by life-long obsessions and knows this is his last campaign. What he doesn’t know is that his Incan allies led by the princess Sarpay have their own furtive plans to make sure he never finds the golden city of Vilcabamba. He also doesn’t know that Héctor Valiente, the freed African slave he appointed as his lieutenant, has found a portal that will lead them all into a world that will challenge his deepest beliefs. And what he can’t possibly know is that this world will trap him in a war between two eternal enemies, leading him to question everything he has devoted his life to - his command, his Incan princess, his honor, his God. In the end, he faces the ultimate dilemma: how is it possible to battle your own obsessions . . . to conquer yourself?
Dirk Strasser's fantasy trilogy The Books of Ascension (Zenith, Equinox and Eclipse) was published in German (Heyne Verlag) and English (Pan Macmillan), and his short stories have been translated into several European languages. ‘The Doppelgänger Effect’ appeared in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, Dreaming Down Under (Tor). Dirk was born in Germany but has lived most of his life in Australia. He works in educational publishing, has trekked the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, and studied Renaissance history.
