Golden Legend: Lost City in the Andes

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 PrincessA 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.

Oscar Luis Rigiroli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He served his profession as a chemical engineer until 2005 when he started his literary career. He writes in English and Spanish, and his areas of interest are the economy and the narrative. So far he has published six books, five novels and an essay on political economy. His books are available in printed editions and as e-books. Regular reader of novels of adventure, suspense, espionage and trips occurring in varied environments, some of them exotic, his tastes as a reader guide his choices as a writer. The construction of his plots and characters is invariably preceded by a thorough investigation on historical moments and facts.