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

but when a surprise blizzard hits

In a sleepy village in the Shire

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