If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning.
 A 10th century saga narrates the arrival of a Viking castaway to the Mayan cities. He is accepted as an avatar of the God Kukulkan and marries a Maya Princess
A genetic thread links those misty characters with a young Mexican archaeologist and through her with the members of an expedition set to find El Gran Paititi, legendary lost city of the Incas. Myths about lost civilizations are recurrent in all cultures because they exert an irresistible romantic attraction on the human soul. The search unfolds first in the Amazonian jungle between Peru and Brazil and in the forests of Peruvian highlands afterwards.
The expedition has attracted the attention of dangerous people led by a former Soviet intelligence officer who are looking for Paititi by its riches to put them at the service of a world power restoration project. 
Finally, a strange millennial group of alleged descendants of the Incas intends to expel all foreigners who pollute their sacred site which they seek to preserve for the day of the resurrection of the vast Empire.
All these elements interact in the novel, creating a climate of sustained suspense and anxiety until the final climax.

The Mythical City

They could quickly find the stone columns at the flat hill peak. Looking at it calmly, without the anguish of having his enemies approaching, Marcelo obtained a more objective vision. As often happens, he found them somewhat smaller than at the first time, and infinitely older. The action of the erosion of the elements on the stone was particularly evident, in that site exposed to the winds, only partially sheltered by the tall trees that surrounded it. The monuments were photographed in general and in detail, and Miguel spent a good time contemplating their texture, even with a magnifying glass. This allowed him to discover, after removing the lichen and dust coating, notches and marks of undoubtedly human origin on the stone. 


“In fact” he confessed “ I found them because I was looking for them. It would have been very unusual that whoever erected these pillars had not used them to leave messages on their surface.” 


Chapter 13