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Title: The Last Conquistador
Author: Michael Elias
Narrator: Carol Monda
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
A series of child abductions in Peru leads an FBI agent and an archaeologist to uncover the ultimate secret of the Inca Empire.
On a Peruvian Andes mountaintop, archaeology professor Nina Ramirez and her students make two stunning discoveries: The five-hundred-year-old mummy of an Inca girl, the victim of ritual sacrifice, and in another grave, the corpse of a recently kidnapped boy wearing the same ancient costume. Child abductions are being reported throughout Peru, and when an American boy is snatched in Lima, FBI agent Adam Palma is assigned to the case.
At the home of a manic artist who was the sole survivor of similar kidnappings in 1962, Adam is shown a disturbing mural depicting the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. In the painting, the conquistadors face looks exactly like his own. Adam teams up with Nina, and with the help of a mysterious boy named Quiso, their investigation takes them deep into the Amazon jungle in a search of a lost city of the Incas, where the ancient sacrificial rituals may still be alive. As Quiso leads Nina and Adam closer to the city and its secrets, Adam realizes that the only way to save the kidnapped children is to make the past repeat itself. Adam, like his distant ancestor Pizarro, must square off against an Inca high priest.
Members Reviews:
Mystery, History, Archeology and Romance. Who Could Ask for More
I think my title, Mystery, History, Archeology and Romance really sums this book up. It is riveting. I always read reviews that say "I couldn't put it down" and never quite believe it. Well this is one I stayed up until 4 a.m., got a few hours sleep and trundled off to work with Inca themes playing themselves out in my head. It also convinced me that my next vacation is in Peru.
'Brilliant' and 'exciting' are the first words that pop into my head as I read this book. Not only is it a stimulating and often terrifying mystery but it is ingeniously set in both modern day and historic Peru. In a sense it is time travel, taking its characters back 600 years to discover Vilcabamba, the "Lost city of the Incas" that archeologists dream of finding. And it includes a cleverly plotted love story between an Hispanic FBI agent and a Peruvian forensic archaeologist. I like that the author also provides so much information about the Inca Empire; its history, culture and eventual destruction by the Spanish Conquistadors. Elias skillfully makes the information fun and not didactic. One of the things that impressed me is that Elias has kept Howard Zinn's idea alive - tell the history of a people not by those who conquered them (as most of history is written) but from the point of view of those who were vanquished and destroyed, the Inca civilization.
It's a great beach read but also aspires and reaches literary merit. Elias is a screenwriter and he keeps it moving. If this is his first novel I can't wait for the second.
A Peruvian Archeologist, an American FBI agent and Inca Indians, Amazing story
What a great story. What could an archeologist, an FBI agent, a lost Inca Indian tribe and a Drug Lord have in common? A great novel, that's what.
Our story starts with Nina a Peruvian archeologist who is taking a group of students on a dig to what they hope is an Inca Burial site. What they discover is a site where the Inca Indians sacrificed one of their children to the gods.
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Title: The Last Conquistador
Author: Michael Elias
Narrator: Carol Monda
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
A series of child abductions in Peru leads an FBI agent and an archaeologist to uncover the ultimate secret of the Inca Empire.
On a Peruvian Andes mountaintop, archaeology professor Nina Ramirez and her students make two stunning discoveries: The five-hundred-year-old mummy of an Inca girl, the victim of ritual sacrifice, and in another grave, the corpse of a recently kidnapped boy wearing the same ancient costume. Child abductions are being reported throughout Peru, and when an American boy is snatched in Lima, FBI agent Adam Palma is assigned to the case.
At the home of a manic artist who was the sole survivor of similar kidnappings in 1962, Adam is shown a disturbing mural depicting the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. In the painting, the conquistadors face looks exactly like his own. Adam teams up with Nina, and with the help of a mysterious boy named Quiso, their investigation takes them deep into the Amazon jungle in a search of a lost city of the Incas, where the ancient sacrificial rituals may still be alive. As Quiso leads Nina and Adam closer to the city and its secrets, Adam realizes that the only way to save the kidnapped children is to make the past repeat itself. Adam, like his distant ancestor Pizarro, must square off against an Inca high priest.
Members Reviews:
Mystery, History, Archeology and Romance. Who Could Ask for More
I think my title, Mystery, History, Archeology and Romance really sums this book up. It is riveting. I always read reviews that say "I couldn't put it down" and never quite believe it. Well this is one I stayed up until 4 a.m., got a few hours sleep and trundled off to work with Inca themes playing themselves out in my head. It also convinced me that my next vacation is in Peru.
'Brilliant' and 'exciting' are the first words that pop into my head as I read this book. Not only is it a stimulating and often terrifying mystery but it is ingeniously set in both modern day and historic Peru. In a sense it is time travel, taking its characters back 600 years to discover Vilcabamba, the "Lost city of the Incas" that archeologists dream of finding. And it includes a cleverly plotted love story between an Hispanic FBI agent and a Peruvian forensic archaeologist. I like that the author also provides so much information about the Inca Empire; its history, culture and eventual destruction by the Spanish Conquistadors. Elias skillfully makes the information fun and not didactic. One of the things that impressed me is that Elias has kept Howard Zinn's idea alive - tell the history of a people not by those who conquered them (as most of history is written) but from the point of view of those who were vanquished and destroyed, the Inca civilization.
It's a great beach read but also aspires and reaches literary merit. Elias is a screenwriter and he keeps it moving. If this is his first novel I can't wait for the second.
A Peruvian Archeologist, an American FBI agent and Inca Indians, Amazing story
What a great story. What could an archeologist, an FBI agent, a lost Inca Indian tribe and a Drug Lord have in common? A great novel, that's what.
Our story starts with Nina a Peruvian archeologist who is taking a group of students on a dig to what they hope is an Inca Burial site. What they discover is a site where the Inca Indians sacrificed one of their children to the gods.