Samuel Shellabarger

"Captain from Castile, a classic of mid-twentieth-century American popular fiction, is the story of a young Spanish nobleman, Pedro de Vargas, who flees to the New World when his family is denounced by the Inquisition. He enlists with Cortés to conquer Mexico. His swashbuckling adventures move at a fast pace from sword fights to romantic and political intrigue. Readers often have compared this Samuel Shellabarger novel, to Alexandre Dumas' The Count...

Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortez on his dangerous expedition to conquer Mexico.