The Conquistadors Trilogy - Dennis Santaniello

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Résumé :
Three expeditions. Three landscapes. One soldier who can't stop following men into hell. The Conquistadors Trilogy follows Sardina - a young Spanish soldier who crosses Pizarro's line in the sand and spends the next fifteen years trying to understand what he's become. The jungles of Peru. The deserts of Arizona. The rivers of La Florida. He watches empires rise and fall, watches men he knows turn into monsters, and watches himself become something he doesn't recognize. Book 1: Brothers & Kings - Peru, 1532. Sardina joins Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire. He meets a reluctant king named Manco. He begins to see the truth. Book 2: Devils of the Desert - Arizona, 1540. Sardina follows Coronado into the desert, chasing the Seven Cities of Gold. A mysterious shaman called The Turk promises to lead them there. The price is everything. Book 3: Rivers and Blood - The Mississippi, 1541. Sardina finds his old comrade Hernando de Soto burning his way through La Florida. The final reckoning. Told from both Spanish and Native perspectives, this trilogy strips the romance off the conquest and shows what's underneath - greed, violence, faith, survival, and the slow, grinding cost of empire on the people who built it and the people who were destroyed by it. This is Sardina's story. It doesn't flinch....

Biographie:
Dennis Santaniello is a New Jersey-born author who writes novels, screenplays, and essays. His work moves between historical fiction and nonfiction, with a steady interest in how people carry memory, loyalty, and damage through time. His books include Sergei and Hans, a World War I novel set on the Eastern Front, The Conquistadors Trilogy about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the nonfiction series The Fruits of History, and Dennis At The Movies. He publishes independently and approaches his work with patience, curiosity, and a voice shaped by long years of writing and revisiting the same questions from different angles....

Sommaire:
Journey back to the Spanish Conquest with 'CONQUISTADORS,' a trilogy that vividly brings to life a pivotal epoch. At the forefront is Sardina, a soldier torn between duty and morality, as he traverses from Peru's lush jungles to the unforgiving deserts of Arizona. The series - 'BROTHERS AND KINGS,' 'DEVILS OF THE DESERT,' and 'RIVERS AND BLOOD' - unfolds a narrative rich with historical detail and personal struggle. Each book offers a unique perspective on the complexities of war, the resilience of indigenous cultures, and the indomitable human spirit. 'CONQUISTADORS' offers more than historical fiction...