“In Conquistador, Buddy Levy offers a fascinating account of the first and most decisive of those encounters: the one between the impetuous Spanish adventurer Cortés and Montezuma, the ill-starred emperor of the Aztecs -- clearly the wrong emperor at the wrong place at the wrong time. Mr. Levy has an eye for vivid detail and manages to build a compelling narrative out of this almost unbelievable story of missionary zeal, greed, cruelty and courage.”
--Arthur Herman, is the author most recently, of Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.
Reviewed in Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121564818628840997.html
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