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Lisboa, 1514. Reinaldo Duarte se siente atraído por el aroma y el valor de las especias que llegan en galeones a la desembocadura del río Tajo y terminan en la herboristería de maese Queirós, donde trabaja como aprendiz. Gracias a la relación de Queirós con Francisco Serrano y Hernando de Magallanes, sabrá de la existencia de las islas Molucas, a cuya isla de Tidore llega en 1519 para negociar con el clavo que se cultiva en las laderas del Kiematabu y donde acabará enamorado de la princesa Moluquia, que le invita a creer que ha encontrado su lugar en el mundo. Con el telón de fondo...

This is about the life of Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron's castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter and the baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, this is the begining of the real Candide's life.

From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. Soon the CIA operative and former Special Forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the same expedition that took Clark...

A 1989 plot against Fidel Castro, led by a mysterious figure known only as "General Sombra"--General Shadow--leads the people involved into a maze of contradictory emotions, as the Cuban leader confronts his own conscience.