You Dreamed of Empires from the sunsets on the

from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths

This new book--written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus

The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son

One of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery

You Dreamed of Empires from the sunsets on the"Short, strange, spiky and sublime [Enrigue] is clearly a major talent." Dwight Garner, The New York Times From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernn Corts entered the city of Tenochtitlan today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Corts was