Gary Jennings

From the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road, Marco Polo meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages, and women.

The Blockbuster epic of the Roman Empire's disintegration. Thorn the Goth is an orphan, brought up in a monastery, transferred to a nunnery, and thrown out into an unforgiving world when the stunning discovery is made that Thorn is a hermaphrodite. For many, this bizarre sexual trait would be a crippling disadvantage. For Thorn, it presents a unique chance to enjoy every pleasure of the flesh, to dissemble, to be all things to all men and to...

In the arid canyonlands of Mexico the race is on for the ultimate end-of-the-world codex-the final 1000-year-old prophesy of the god-king, Quetzalcoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones hunt for that sacred codex in those scorching desert canyons, while 500 years ago, Pacal, a young slave-scholar, sets out on the same deadly quest. He too must find those apocalyptic writings, knowing that his era-the Age of the Aztecs-may...

Forced to flee after killing a man who was beating a horse, Juan the Lépero, who hides his mixed heritage to escape life as a beggar, embarks on a series of adventures as a highwayman, horse thief, and wealthy caballero before resolving to rescue a man who once saved his life.