The 2012 Codex: Robert Gleason, Junius Podrug

✍ Scribed by Jennings, Gary

• Book ID: 109889227
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 270 KB
• Series: Aztec 6
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780765322609

✦ Synopsis

In the arid canyonlands of Mexico the race is on for the ultimate end-of-the-world codex--the final 1000-year-old prophesy of the god-king, Quetzalcoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones hunt for that sacred codex in those scorching desert canyons, while 500 years ago, Pacal, a young slave-scholar, sets out on the same deadly quest. He too must find those apocalyptic writings, knowing that his era--the Age of the Aztecs--may well come to an end if he does not find them.

For Pacal, the End-Time is at hand. Montezuma has built a vast empire based in what will one day be Mexico City. Now however he faces war, disastrous drought, death-cult priests, who rip the hearts out of thousands of people atop their pyramids . . . and the arrival of red-bearded horse-borne conquistador, bearing preternaturally powerful weapons and catastrophic plagues, sowing pandemic death wherever he goes.

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