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

The first snow bleached the slopes of the surrounding hills. Icy wind bursts produced chills among the attendants, covered with ponchos of the same color. 


The officiating priest, a sort of master of ceremonies with a deep knowledge of the ancient rituals and of the original quechua language, raised his arm with a stone knife in his hand, and downed it over the helpless llama covering with blood the white fleece of the animal, as well as himself and the neighboring land patch. 


Once the propitiatory ceremony was performed, the curaca sitting in the Centre of the row of men stood up and slowly began to speak. He had on his right hand the arch with the distinctive signs of his office. Not everyone understood the ancient dialect, but all extended a respectful and attentive silence. 


Epilogue