Montezuma’s Daughter. Volume 40

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Montezuma's Daughter is a story of Thomas Wingfleld, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery as he searches for the Spanish villian who killed his mother. Thomas's revenge quest takes him to Mexico as he sides with the Aztecs.