The Conquest

About the Book

In 1519 Cortés sailed from Cuba, leading an expedition of search and discovery of any lands to the west of Cuba. What he found was a land and a civilization that was larger and richer than anything in his wildest dreams. He became compulsively determined to have this new land and its riches as his own. But within the fog that hides the future, it was the Aztec's own beliefs and their complete ignorance of any nations existing beyond the seas that made up the substance of that fog, and led them blindly into a collision with a fate, which time and distance had been ever-ripening. It is through that fog that the Aztec's continuing story and the love affair of Jaguar and Five Rabbit unfolds within a quite unbelievable military struggle for the conquest of Mexico.

About the Author

Norris Ray Peery developed his commitment and fascination with Mesoamerica as a student at the University of Utah prior to travels and work in Europe, the Middle East and Far East. As an electronic engineer, he was working in Iran at the time the Shaw?s government was overthrown and had to suddenly escape the country. He knows what it feels like to be hunted while in a hostile territory. He has written: Blood Flower a novel covering that time in Iran and also philosophical and mathematical books concerning the nature of Human Intelligence and Instincts.