Aztec Fire by Gary Jennings

Aztec Fire by Gary Jennings

The Aztec uprising in 1810 left young Juan Martez orphaned in a savage land. Like many native Aztecs, Juan was sentenced to hang by the Spanish. But his life is spared when a Spanish gun maker learns of his skills with gunpowder and buys him to make munitions.Keeping his Aztec heritage low key, Juan becomes the finest gun maker in the colony - and the best shot. But both talents are kept secret - if the Spanish knew of his skills, he would surely be killed. Juan secretly works the Mexican underground, running guns and black powder to guerrilla forces fighting for independence. Along the way he falls in love with Maria Volza, a fiery revolutionary stirring up the masses, but she rejects him as fallen under the Spanish boot.But Juan's destiny is to lead the Mexicans against Spanish rule, and when Maria discovers the life Juan has hidden so well, a battle is ignited and the revolution begins.

Podrug, Junius: - Junius Podrug is the author of Frost of Heaven, Presumed Guilty, and The Disaster Survival Bible. He has experienced two major earthquakes, a flash flood, a blizzard of historical significance, a shipboard emergency, and a crazy with a gun. He considers his paranoia to be heightened awareness and habitually checks where the life vests are stored when boarding a ship and where the fire escapes are located before unpacking in a hotel room. He lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780765317032
ISBN 10	0765317036
Title	Aztec Fire
Author	Gary Jennings
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2008-08-19
Number of pages	464
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