The Jaguar’s Heart opens during the assassination of a U.S. presidential candidate and takes the reader into the world of Sangre de Dios, a shadowy cult steeped in Aztec and Toltec mythology and practicing human sacrifice. Itzcoall, the cult’s demonic leader promises immortality for the chosen few and slavery for all others.Jesse J. Rideout, a young, patriotic, idealist recruited from Special Forces Training Group by the C.I.A. and trained as a penetration agent and assassin, becomes a fugitive when he discovers that he’s embroiled in the assassination of a U.S. presidential candidate. Now surviving as an amateur archeologist and artifact smuggler in Mexico, he uncovers a powerful Toltec artifact. Sangre de Dios attacks Jesse to recover the artifact, and murders his best friend on a blood soaked pyramid. To destroy an ancient horror and prevent the murders of thousands of innocent people Jesse must undergo a mind-bending transformation and learn if the cult leader has real occult power or if his followers are deluded by exotic hallucinogens.Katarina Castillo: daughter of the aristocracy, a young woman facing unimaginable horror and discovering new depths of courage, learns new skills under Jesse’s tutelage and becomes his partner in their desperate attempt to stop the cult. Kate becomes Jesse’s anchor to reality as he comes to doubt his own sanity under the assaults of Itzcoall, and must face her own moral choices when confronted by killers.Their only allies, a curandera steeped in Toltec wisdom, and the secretive Society of the White Rose, sworn enemy of Sangre de Dios.
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