Don Amador de Leste joins the conquest of Mexico in search of his kinsman Calavar, a melancholy knight of Rhodes haunted by a secret sin. With his page Jacinto, who carries a secret of his own, Amador follows Cortés through the march on Tenochtitlan and the disastrous retreat of the Noche Triste.
An ambitious early American historical novel by the author of Nick of the Woods. Download the free EPUB.