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 heard additional explosions in the area of tents which had been left outside, also shaken by bursts of machine guns, but the installations had already been evacuated by personnel, and they had taken inside the cave everything that could have military, scientific or survival value. 


After a few minutes of intense coverage fire by the attackers, the sergeant shouted” 


Calculating the attacking fire will relent to prevent hitting they own men, Ogawa and his soldiers returned to the entrance, which had been fortified with stones before the fight and took their positions. The Colonel gave the order to fire randomly and other two attackers bit the dust. Machine guns and missile launchers of the forest could not act to avoid hurting their own men, who were in the line of fire. After the unexpected resistance and the casualties suffered the attackers returned crawling to their rear. 


“The situation seems to be stabilizing.” McPherson whispered in Ogawa´s. 


Chapter 17.1