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Aztec autumn book6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Along the way, he has various adventures, many of them sexual. ![]() As part of his plan to stir up serious trouble for the oppressors, Tenamaxtli remains in Mexico City, learning the Spaniards' strange ways he then spends the next several years in the countryside struggling to put together an army. Suddenly, Tenamaxtli's mother blurts out the news that the man being burned as a heretic is Tenamaxtli's father, a revelation that immediately sets him to plotting revenge. Its hero, 18-year-old Tenamaxtli, is on a visit to Mexico City with his mother and uncle when they witness the death of an Aztec who has not quite lived up to the rules of the new religion. Not surprisingly, ''Aztec Autumn'' is a bloody tale of revenge. In this ambitious historical novel, a sequel to the best-selling ''Aztec,'' which described life in the New World before the Spanish invasion, Gary Jennings picks up his story in the mid-16th century, a generation after the conquest. ![]() When the conquistadors arrived uninvited in what is now Mexico, they were not very gracious guests: they looted, they plundered, they raped and, perhaps worst of all, they tried to ''bring religion'' to the local people, whether they wanted it or not. ![]()
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